KING SALMON, Alaska (AP) - The National Park Service has released the name of a California man missing on a river trip in Alaska.
The agency says 72-year-old John Squires of Sacramento was one of three people in raft that flipped Tuesday in American Creek. The creek is within Katmai (KAT-meye) National Park and Preserve northwest of Kodiak Island.
The other two people in the raft swam to opposite shores. They hiked downstream on their respective sides to a guided camp, where campers used a satellite telephone to contact a lodge.
Park Service rangers, the Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers and volunteers searched for Squires by air and raft.
State and federal authorities on Thursday afternoon suspended the search for Squires.
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