Search efforts are ongoing for William Davis, a 79-year-old man from Jacksonville who disappeared after wandering off the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Davis was last seen around 3:20 p.m. Wednesday near the observation deck after taking the Cog Train to the top of Mt. Washington, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a> <\/p>\n Despite initial phone contact with Davis indicating he was not far from the summit, search teams have been unable to locate him, the release said.<\/p>\n The search for Davis began on Wednesday evening when NH Fish and Game said it was notified of his disappearance around 6 p.m. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n A full-scale search was launched, involving NH Fish and Game Conservation Officers, Mt. Washington State Park personnel, and volunteers from Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue (AVSAR).<\/p>\n Search efforts included the use of a Fish and Game Drone Team and more than 24 rescue personnel who combed off-trail locations into early Thursday morning. <\/p>\n Although mild temperatures and light winds initially aided the search, conditions worsened with the arrival of fog and increased winds, the release said.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n The search was suspended at 2 a.m. Thursday, due to deteriorating weather, and resumed at 6 a.m. Thursday. <\/p>\n Despite continued efforts throughout the day, including drone searches and ground teams scouring likely areas, authorities said no evidence or clues regarding Davis\u2019s whereabouts were found Thursday.<\/p>\n Search efforts are continuing Friday, authorities said.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Search efforts are ongoing for William Davis, a 79-year-old man from Jacksonville who disappeared after wandering off the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,3188,723,51145,7324,7310,7327,51146,51142,51143,51144,7325,7326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,51141,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-73124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cbs47","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-man-missing-in-new-hampshire","14":"tag-fox30","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-jacksonville-fl","17":"tag-jacksonville-man-missing-on-mount-washington","18":"tag-man-missing-mount-washington","19":"tag-mount-washington-new-hampshire","20":"tag-new-hampshire-fish-and-game-department","21":"tag-northeast-florida","22":"tag-southeast-georgia","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-wfox","30":"tag-william-davis","31":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}