Rescue efforts underway for lost person near Long Ridge Rd, Madison County NC
Other Non-Crime Event (Search And Rescue)Emergency personnel are searching for a lost person near Long Ridge Rd trailhead. The individual may be stranded without a flashlight and has been advised not to move. Rescue teams are using GPS coordinates to locate them about 3000 feet from their parked vehicle on the ridge line.
Audio|Source: Madison County Public Safety
03:14
Transcript:
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Approximately 10 minutes ago,
00:02
through the cell phone battery being around 20%, we advised him to call back about 20 minutes.
00:14
We also did advise him not to move from his current location.
00:23
Okay, so you got a way I'm calling him once I get to the prom up there, direct.
00:30
Ten, enforcement, sir.
00:32
We can make contact back.
00:36
Also, Station 15, Rescue 300 is going to be made in Big Creek Church to assist you.
00:44
Okay, I might go on the wild-o-platch road tip I can make visual contact where this guy is actually parked just to be sure that he gets into the line-o-platch road that's the trailhead there for make sure it didn't go in another way.
01:01
There's several ways to get in there.
01:03
You can go up.
01:09
The woods,
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park out there at the end, and that's a Thistle Street Trail, which will go off in there, but it's a long way around, but I want to make sure that these parks exactly where he's headed.
01:26
Through a field of yellow flowers, possibly photoplats.
01:37
on both ends of a lot of plants.
01:42
I'll make sure there's vehicles, whatever it is.
01:44
If you'll just let everybody know that I'm going over and make sure that's where he's at, then I can't drive on something there.
01:53
First 5-2 is on thing.
01:57
First 5-2, 2108.
02:07
Any bakery is available this time? Can I get you 17294 East of the Tree Road? The first 1080 has been verbal and in school.
02:19
Parties are separated this time.
02:21
It is between a son and mother.
02:41
Willie, you're hauling it, mate.
02:43
Whale, you hauling it, mate?
02:47
I just got the side of the side, bringing in.
02:55
Just off the trail on the ridge line there, showed him on his coordinates.
03:02
I think you don't have a light or something.
03:04
Apparently he don't have a flashlight or anything.
03:07
It shows him from his coordinates where he's at on his GPS to where he parked his vehicle is only about 3,000 feet from the vehicle.
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Long Ridge Rd, North Carolina
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