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Search to Resume for Missing, Retired Dallas Firefighter

Michael Chambers, 70, disappeared eight weeks ago in Hunt County

Friday marks eight weeks since a retired Dallas firefighter disappeared from his home in Quinlan, in Hunt County.

Michael Chambers, 70, went shopping at Walmart on the morning of March 10.

Surveillance video from inside of the store shows Chambers purchasing makeup for his wife, walking out of the store and cameras outside show Chambers driving away.

And that was the last time anyone knows for sure the whereabouts of the man his family affectionately calls PaPaw.

“I have to have an answer. This is literally exhausting me mentally and physically,” said Suzy Losoya, Chambers’ daughter. “We have to find the answer. I want it to be a good answer. I want it to be a positive answer. But, if not, I still need to know.”

Losoya said she has tried to play ‘Junior Detective’ while the official investigation, conducted by the Hunt County Sheriff’s Department, has played out.

Losoya is concerned that her father’s cell phone is also missing, that some of her father’s blood was found in his home workshop and that multiple searches of the woods in the area surrounding his home have only revealed “where he isn’t.”

“There is just not a whole lot of it that makes sense to us. People don’t disappear. How does a trail just end?” Losoya wondered aloud.

Chambers served Dallas Fire-Rescue for 36 years before he retired in 2008. He is a husband, a father, a grandfather and well-known man in his community, according to family members.

Family, friends and members of the community are invited to participate in a prayer vigil for Chambers at on Saturday, May 6, at 6:30 in the evening at Greenville Sports Park.

A flier for the event notes that the public is welcome, and that participants should “bring a candle and a prayerful heart.”

Although the official search for Chambers, conducted by the Hunt County Sheriff’s Department and other professionals, has concluded, a new search effort will begin again on Sunday, according to Losoya. An experienced team from out of state is expected to arrive and begin a fresh search, including in areas that have already been searched.

“When you’re dealing with a death, a sickness, an accident, whether it’s sudden or for a long time coming, you grieve and you’re sad and you move on,” Losoya said. “But with this you don’t know what you’re dealing with, and you can’t grieve and move on.”

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