Friends and family of a missing Niagara Falls woman continue the search.
Specialized teams and volunteers converged on the Niagara Gorge yesterday to search for Alicia Kirkwood who has been missing since a fall on Friday afternoon, but they came up empty handed.
Bill Bolton led a tactical team who had been contacted by the family to aid in the effort.
"It's a very difficult situation to be under. When I went down and looked at all our availabilities and that, to be honest the safest way to [look for Kirkwood] was the way we did it, by standing right up on the top with high powered binoculars and scanning the river. Unfortunately it doesn't sound like much, but it is the most practical way for us to do it."
Volunteers also helped in the search yesterday, but there is a large area to cover.
"First of all we have to establish if we can even find where she possibly is. If we could do that then we may be able to put a timeline on it, but right now she could be literally from where she went in all the way to Lake Ontario," Bolton says. "Plus also the river has a mind of its own in the sense that it changes so much. The conditions change almost daily."
While loved ones continue to look for some kind of closure, a Go Fund Me account has raised over $5,000 to help fund the ongoing search and support Kirkwood's family.