Many know Malibu as a world-famous hub of wellness, rehabilitation and addiction treatment. The fires are tearing it apart.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Malibu Search and Rescue Team sprung into action to locate the 78-year-old who suffers from early-onset dementia, according to an Instagram post.

Using a drone equipped with infrared heat-seeking technology, Malibu Search and Rescue noted “a significant heat signature” that was motionless in thick brush alongside a road, authorities said.

The Los Angeles Fire Department shared a video in which Captain Erik Scott showed the extent of damage caused by the ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department and their Captain Erik Scott took to Instagram to share the extent of damage and ruin caused ...

In a Facebook post shared on Tuesday, Dec. 24, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Malibu Search and Rescue Team ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department search and rescue team, Malibu SAR, was called around 4:30 p.m. to help find the 78-year-old. The temperature was 48 degrees and falling. "If it wasn't ...

Malibu Search and Rescue and the LA County sheriff’s office shared photos of the operation on X, including the grainy gray ...

The department said the search and rescue team with the sheriff’s Lost Hills/Malibu Station used drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras to help search the area where the man had gone missing.

open image in gallery Malibu Search and Rescue and the LA County sheriff’s office shared photos of the operation on X, including the grainy gray screen with a red image of the man lying in the ...

The elderly man with dementia was located in a field of thick brush off the side of a roadway about a quarter-mile from his home.