Emergency responders resumed searching Monday morning for a man in his thirties who went missing after slipping off a rock and falling into the water while fishing at Rivière-du-Moulin Park in Chicoutimi on Sunday evening.
Authorities were called to the scene around 7:00 p. m.
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on Sunday after a female companion reported the incident.
Emergency crews evacuated visitors from park trails, stationed firefighters with boats, and deployed drones equipped with night vision and thermal sensors before suspending the search at midnight.
Park officials confirmed the immediate response by local emergency services during the initial hours of the operation.
"Firefighters and police officers have taken charge of the situation. A person has indeed fallen into the water.
They are conducting a rescue operation right now," said Myriam Benoît, general director of Rivière-du-Moulin Park.
According to authorities, recent rainfall had left the river rocks slippery, contributing to the fall in a section with swift currents and depths reaching up to 20 feet.
"The firefighters and police officers took charge of the situation. We received a call informing us that a citizen had fallen into the water.
It was a female citizen accompanying the victim who called us. She saw him fall after slipping on rocks.
The individual does not know how to swim and was not wearing a flotation device, based on what she explained to us," said Jean Côté, a firefighter with the Saguenay Fire Safety Service.
