Search-and-Rescue Turns to Recovery Mission for 6-Year-Old Swept Away by Creek

Authorities continue to search for a missing 6-year-old who was caught in a deadly current in a Pennsylvania creek, but the outlook is bleak for rescuing the young girl.

Chester Fire Commissioner John-Paul Shirley announced in a Sunday press conference that the search-and-rescue mission for Lin’Ajah Brooker was now a recovery mission, which would continue until dusk. After that, responders would have to suspend the search because of the danger of posed to the search team by keeping them in the water.

“We always had in the back of our minds, just based on the initial information, that it was going be a recovery after three hours,” Shirley told reporters. “But that being said, we didn't want to give out hope. Because we were looking for that miracle.”

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