LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Northshore Dive Team has begun a search in Lakeport for a man who went missing at a city dock Saturday afternoon.
The dive team was dispatched to the Lakeport Yacht Club, located at 15 Fifth St., shortly before 3:30 p.m., according to radio traffic.
Lakeport Fire Chief Doug Hutchison said the person who is the focus of the search is a man who was loading up his boat.
Witnesses reported that the man went to retrieve something and then disappeared, Hutchison said.
The search was under way shortly before 4 p.m., Hutchison said.
The Fifth Street boat ramp is closed while the search takes place.
Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
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