Searchers find missing hikers in Orange County

After spending the night at the Trabuco Flyers Club, Dawn Jack, left, mother of missing hiker Kyndall Jack, talks with family members before the search for her daughter resumed Thursday morning.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Helicopters prepare to lift off from the Trabuco Flyers Club at first light to resume the search for hiker Kyndall Jack.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Friends of Nicolas Cendoya and Kyndall Jack wait for news about Jack after Cendoya was found alive Wednesday night in Trabuco Canyon.  (Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times)

Mission Hospital emergency room Dr. Matthew Kaplan briefs the media on the condition of hiker Nicholas Cendoya.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Hiker Nicholas Cendoya was taken to the Mission Hospital emergency room for treatment after his rescue Wednesday night.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s helicopter arrives at Trabuco Flyers Club to help search for two teenage hikers missing since Easter Sunday.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Sheriff’s Sgt. Larry Packard searches a hillside for missing hikers.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Russ Jack waits for the word about his missing daughter, Kyndall Jack.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Family members and friends arrive at Trabuco Flyers Club to continue the effort to find Kyndall Jack, 18, and Nicholas Cendoya, 19, both of Costa Mesa.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Volunteers who are helping authorities search for two missing hikers in Orange County are being urged to take extra precautions of their own.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Sheriff’s Sgt. Brian Sims talks to the parents of Kyndall Jack before sending a team of rescuers to check out a nearby ridge.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Bill Burk of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, with his dog Sando, gets out of a helicopter at Holy Jim Canyon to search for the lost hikers.   (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A message for Kyndall Jack, left by her mother, is written on Nicholas Cendoya’s car in Holy Jim Canyon on Tuesday.   (Kevin Chang / Daily Pilot)

A fire helicopter gets ready to pick up search and rescue members.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Dawn, left, and Russ Jack scan the mountains hoping for a sign of their missing daughter Kyndall Jack.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Family members and friends wait for updates on the search for the lost hikers.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A helicopter takes off to search for the missing hikers.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Rescue crews gather at the Trabuco Fire Department where they will restart their search for missing hikers Kyndall Jack and Nicholas Cendoya, who went missing in the area of Holy Jim Canyon in the Cleveland National Forest.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Dawn and Russ Jack await word about their daughter, Kyndall Jack of Costa Mesa.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Members of the Sierra Madre Search and Rescue team study maps before searching for the missing hikers.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Dawn Jack hugs a well-wisher.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Friends of missing hiker Nicholas Cendoya await word while searchers gather at the Trabuco Fire Department.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

The search in a rugged area of south Orange County was restarted using horses, hikers and helicopters.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Orange County sheriff’s deputies park next to the car left by missing hikers Kyndall Jack, 18, and Nicholas Cendoya 19, on Trabuco Creek Road. The two hikers are believed to be in the area of Holy Jim Canyon in the Cleveland National Forest.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)