The King County Sheriff’s Office will not resume the search for a missing 13-year-old this weekend because of unsafe conditions in the Green River.

The teenager, Austin Fuda, was a passenger in a car that plunged into the river on Nov. 7. He is presumed drowned.

The accident also killed Fuda’s cousin, 2-year-old Hunter Beaupre. The two boys were passengers in a Volkswagen Beetle driven by a 16-year-old girl, a relative of one of the boys, who lost control of the car along a windy stretch of Green River Road Southeast at about 8:30 a.m., just north of the Auburn Municipal Golf Course.

The girl tried to save the boys, but the river swept the car 100 yards downstream.

When authorities finally lifted the battered car from the river Tuesday, Beaupre was found inside, still strapped to his car seat, but Fuda was missing.

Authorities started their search immediately with the Valley Regional Fire Authority and the King and Pierce County sheriff’s dive teams in boats using pole cameras and sonar equipment. Search dogs were employed to check the riverbank.

While river conditions were cooperative on Tuesday, they remained a problem Friday, preventing searchers from taking boats on the water.

Instead, ground searchers and Guardian One, the county’s search helicopter, will comb the banks of the river downstream from where the car entered the water at about the 29000 block of Green River Road.

According to monitors placed by the U.S. Geological Survey near Auburn, the river was at 9,020 cubic feet per second (CFS) at 1:45 p.m. Friday. Divers cannot go into the water until the river is running at less than 2,000 CFS, and boats are ineffective until the flows fall below about 4,000 CFS.

By way of comparison, when Sheriff’s Office divers recovered the car and the 2-year-old victim on Tuesday, the river was at about 1800 CFS.

The Sheriff’s Office will monitor flows and return to water searches as soon as it is safe to do so.