{"id":385360,"date":"2026-07-03T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385360\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:53:08","slug":"search-and-rescue-teams-launched-to-shaver-area-for-missing-fresno-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385360\/","title":{"rendered":"Search and rescue teams launched to Shaver area for missing Fresno Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 Authorities are asking for the public&#8217;s help in locating 70-year-old Rondy Earl Packard Sr., who has been missing since Sunday morning after leaving his home to go fishing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Fresno Police Department, Packard was last seen at approximately 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 28, 2026, when he left his residence in the Pinedale area of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Department has launched a full search and rescue in the Pine Flat Lake area. <\/p>\n<p>There was a credible sighting on Trimmer Springs Road. The witness reported seeing Packard stopped in the roadway, as they approached, the truck drove away.<\/p>\n<p>Packard is described as an African American man who is bald, stands 5 feet 8 inches tall, and weighs approximately 190 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red-and-white sweater and tan shorts.<\/p>\n<p>He was driving a gray 2022 Nissan Frontier equipped with a wheelchair lift mounted on the rear. The California license plate is 69055H4.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are asking anyone who has seen Packard, his vehicle, or has information about his whereabouts to contact the Fresno Police Department at 559-621-7000 immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 Authorities are asking for the public&#8217;s help in locating 70-year-old Rondy Earl Packard Sr., who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-385360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}