{"id":443371,"date":"2026-08-25T21:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443371\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:22:15","slug":"multiple-agencies-search-for-placer-county-hiker-missing-since-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443371\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple agencies search for Placer County hiker missing since Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hiker in Placer County has been missing for days, and dozens of search-and-rescue personnel have been working through challenging conditions to find him, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The hiker, identified as 24-year-old Ian Roberts, was last seen on Friday morning in the Overlook Park area in Auburn, according to the Placer County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. He was reported missing to the Roseville Police Department on Saturday morning and his car was found shortly after parked in the Overlook Park parking lot, the office said.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff&#8217;s investigators determined Roberts had gone for a hikedown into the American River Canyon area on Friday and had not returned, prompting the search effort. Roberts is 6 feet 10 inches tall, weighs about 210 pounds, and was last seen wearing the clothes shown in a photo released by the sheriff&#8217;s office, a brown T-shirt, dark shorts, grey shoes, and possibly a beanie.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/778972333-1076915095022410-9021831895963980987-n.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"778972333-1076915095022410-9021831895963980987-n.jpg \" height=\"620\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the sheriff&#8217;s office said in a social media post that about 100 search and rescue personnel were in the surrounding area trying to find him, using drones, rescue dogs, and a sheriff&#8217;s office marine unit to search areas along the North Fork American River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/placer-county-search-for-missing-hiker.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Placer County search for missing hiker \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Search and rescue crews search for a missing hiker in Placer County, August 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Placer County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in the area on Tuesday are expected to be warmer than on Monday, with highs in the mid-90s, similar to the conditions over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said they have been helped in the search by more than a dozen law enforcement and volunteer agencies, including California State Parks, Bay Area-based volunteer groups California Search and Rescue and California Rescue Dog Association, and the sheriff&#8217;s offices from Contra Costa, El Dorado, Marin, Sacramento, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Tuolumne, and Yuba counties.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol also assisted with a helicopter crew, and the Placer County Sheriff&#8217;s Office also requested a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caloes.ca.gov\/office-of-the-director\/operations\/response-operations\/fire-rescue\/firis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">California Governor&#8217;s Office of Emergency Services FIRIS flight<\/a> which uses data sensors mounted on fixed wing aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hiker in Placer County has been missing for days, and dozens of search-and-rescue personnel have been working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[19082,5845,10288,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-443371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-hiker","tag-missing-person","tag-placer-county","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443371","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=443371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}