Julia Hosch-Singh was trying to balance celebration and conundrum. It was her daughter's birthday. In the meantime, the search for her father, Charles Hosch , moves into its tenth day. Time is a fact but not a barrier.

"In this case, there is no such thing as a disappeared dad. I'm assuming that dad is very much with us and would like to be home because not doing so could be deadly," she said. "And so we are still very much operating in, if anybody could do survival in North Georgia woods—that he knows and just needs help getting back, it is my dad."

Hosch-Singh said her latest briefing with Union County fire officials was about the four to six canines on the ground in northern Georgia, where Hosch went missing on Veterans' Day during a familiar hike off the Byron Herbert Reece Trail.

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