Possible boat distress call leads to search with no rescue, Normal IL
Missing PersonEmergency responders searched near a lakeside campsite and dam after callers reported a boat circling for about 10 minutes and hearing screams for help. The boat eventually left, and no person in distress was located.
Audio|Source: Bloomington and Normal Fire
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Transcript:
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Just for information, our caller was near campsite 126. It said it was just north of that campsite, somewhere again around the pump house, maybe 100 yards or 100 feet from the shoreline west of the pump house.
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10-4[1] we're trying to make it down to the edge of the water so we can see across the lake.
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Medic 4, site evaluation, 1211, Theta Street, Cross Streets, Beta Street and Alpha Street.
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Time out 2120.
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for additional information PD is and we're out you'll need the stage.
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Okay, thank you.
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Rescue 13, so on scene,
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just rescue 13 command, just command for rescue 13.
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Rescue 13 from command.
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Command, Rescue 13.
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Command from 13.
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Backcountry 13.
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Rescue 13, go ahead.
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Get contact with Hudson's command here, Pomer Park.
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I'm not able to hold them.
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Sorry,
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go ahead, 13, commands command command.
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We're out here at campsite 126, made contact with the caller,
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stated he saw a boat,
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circling around in the cove here for about 10 minutes.
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The guy's trying to flashlight at him, was yelling at him, he was unable to hear him, so he called us out.
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Since then, the guy has started up his motor and driven away. We don't have any boat out here that we're able to find, so I'm not sure, but it appears the guy's probably all right.
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Yeah, 13, we've got a caller over here, farther around by the DM, who said he heard somebody over here by the DM screaming for help.
02:41
And for would you like us to head that way? We don't have a boat over here at 126.
02:48
Yeah, if you guys want to head this direction, we're still looking over here.
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I understand the head and the dam, give it an eye out.
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There's a... ...Cardin 100 for McComb, command.
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Go ahead, command.
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Or, uh, Macomb.
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Sorry about that.
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So we're...
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How close to the dam or, according to your caller, was all this going on, just so we're on the same page?
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Right now we're about 200 yards down from the dam,
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checking the water.
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Individual over here along the side of the road said he heard somebody screaming from this area for help.
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104, and your caller wasn't sure if it was on a boat or just in the area, correct?
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104. 104.
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That's been to come in from 107.
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Go ahead, 107.
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Do you want us to stay foot or come over where you guys are?
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You can go ahead and come back around the side of the lake.
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Have more.
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10-4: Acknowledgement / Affirmative
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Near Pine St, Normal, IL 61761
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