CONGAREE NATIONAL PARK, S.C. (AP) - Searchers are still looking for a father and his two children who said they were lost in the Congaree National Park.
Park spokeswoman Dana Sohen (SOH’-in) says search crews have checked about one-third of the 27,000 acres in the park east of Columbia.
The family was last seen around 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
The search will pause at dark but will continue Tuesday. Sohen says officials have closed the park until the family is found.
Family members say J.R. Kimbler took his 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter for a hike at the park. They don’t think he planned to spend the night because he left his daughter’s medicine and his cigarettes behind.
Authorities say Kimbler sent a text message Saturday night. Family members say he told a friend was lost.
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