Search For Idaho Pilot Spreads Across Wide Area

A spokesman says a search for an Idaho pilot believed to have gone down in southern Oregon is expanding to include both private help and assistance from neighboring Oregon counties and a California county.

Sheriff Tim Evinger of Klamath County, Ore. says the family of 48-year-old Tony Nicholls of Meridian, Idaho, has set up a Facebook page to coordinate private resources like searchers on all-terrain vehicles.

Evinger said late Tuesday that Siskiyou County, Calif., as well as Curry and Josephine counties in Oregon are providing search assistance as well.

Nicholls dropped off his two stepsons in Lakeview, Ore., on Thursday and was to return home that day because his daughter was graduating from high school over the weekend.