Police dive team members in Palm Bay, Fla., were again searching a pond for clues to the whereabouts of Brandy Hall, the volunteer firefighter who disappeared last month after heading home from the Malabar Fire Department, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.
The dive team returned after nearly two weeks, first hampered by rains from Tropical Storm Ernesto, then a long Labor Day weekend as city officials pondered whether to drain a large portion of the pond for a second time.
Brandy Hall, a 32-year-old mother of two and a volunteer Malabar Fire Department firefighter, has been missing since Aug. 17. Her waterlogged pickup truck and several items from her bunker gear were recovered from the murky, brown waters of the pond the following day.
Several detectives are also working on the case, which is being treated as a homicide since forensics workers found a significant amount of Hall's blood in the cab of her pickup. Police also used an urban rescue team from Miami to search for the wooded area around the pond along with a stretch of Interstate 95 in the Viera-Rockledge area. No body was found.
Detectives have interviewed firefighters from Malabar and Palm Bay along with family members and close friends in hopes of finding out what happened to Hall, Florida Today has learned.
The pond, a portion of which was drained in the days after Hall went missing, is on Treeland Boulevard south of Brevard Community College's Palm Bay campus.
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Previous Stories:
- August 30, 2006: Pond Drained Again In Firefighter Search
- August 25, 2006: Hunt For Firefighter Returns To Pond
- August 24, 2006: Firefighter Search Moves To I-95
- August 23, 2006: Apparent Blood Found In Missing Central Fla. Firefighter's Pickup
- August 20, 2006: Pond Drained In Search For Firefighter
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