Search Goes On for Anaheim Man

Rescue crews plan to get an early start today in the search for an Anaheim man whose car was found submerged and overturned in a Chino creek earlier this week.

San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies and Chino police officers plan to use helicopters and dogs in the search for Sadi Mosaferi, 44, who may have been swept away by flood waters Tuesday when his car veered into a creek near El Prado Road and Pine Avenue.

Crews searched a several-mile area Thursday without finding any clues, said San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Rudy Vuittonet.

“We were out there today and had a couple helicopters, sniff dogs and search-and-rescue personnel prodding the creek area along the bank searching for any clues or the person’s body,” Vuittonet said.

Mosaferi’s relatives last spoke to him at 6 p.m. Monday before he left his Upland auto shop. He was probably driving home when his car was overwhelmed by flood water.

“The water was rushing, we know that much,” Vuittonet said. “It was very high above the channel.”

Authorities found the submerged Volvo at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Mosaferi immigrated to the United States from Iran in the mid-1980s and recently opened his car repair business. He is married with one child.