Texas authorities are expanding the search for an 8-year-old girl who disappeared after an accident Christmas Eve Tomorrow, now I’m thinking about other “targeted areas of interest.”
Officials in Sherman, Texas, said it was an SUV carrying six people from Durant, Oklahoma washed away by floods on Highway 75 and crashed into a drainage ditch around 9:30 a.m
Four days later, Sherman Police Chief Jason Jeffcoat said an 8-year-old girl, Clara Robinson, remains disappeared.
Popular high school coach and father Will Robinson and his family are pictured before their tragic accident on Christmas Eve.
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“Search teams are continuing their efforts to search Post Oak Creek near where the initial rescue effort occurred,” Jeffcoat said. “There are also teams searching a 10-mile stretch of Post Oak Creek and Choctaw Creek.”
On Friday, police deployed K9 teams, dive teams, drone teams and helicopters keep looking for Robinson.
Teams include personnel from the Sherman Fire Department, Sherman Police Department, Sherman Fire Rescue, Grayson County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas Task Force Two, Texas Division of Emergency Management and the Grayson County Office of Emergency Management, Public Works, and Brady Baskin, a local rescue diver.
Texas Task Force Two split its team for the search, focusing on both the creeks and other “targeted areas of interest” that were not specified.
Sherman officials said they will continue to search for Clara until she is found.
A photo of the overturned car was shared by KXII. (KXII)
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Will Robinson, father of four children – including Clara – died in the accident while trying to save a five-year-old girl who was unresponsive when rescuers arrived.
The girl was later reunited with her family, which firefighters called “a great blessing in this tragedy.”
“The father had the little girl in his arms at one point during the event, and later they were no longer together, so it looked like he was trying to save her – definitely,” said Bart Bowman of Sherman Fire Rescue.
Police credit Will Robinson with saving a five-year-old girl who was also involved in the accident. (The Owen Foundation)
“One of our guys was able to find the little girl under the water, pulled her out and handed her over to one of our paramedics who was with her,” Bowman said. “That paramedic took her to the ambulance and on the way to the hospital they performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. “
Community members told Fox 4 that Will Robinson was the girls basketball coach at Durant High School in Oklahoma.
“He would always bring CJ (his daughter Clara) to practice and she would always play with us,” Kinlee Hill said.
The players noted that Robinson was an understanding coach and said he did everything he could to keep them in a positive mindset.
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“He was so patient with us girls,” player Emeri Morse said. “I honestly don’t think I remember ever raising my voice angrily at him or asking for snacks.
Fox Texas Digital and Fox 4’s Dan Godwin and David Sentendrey contributed to this story.
