Rescue teams conduct search and medevac near Rocky Tower, Amherst County VA
Missing PersonRescue teams coordinated a search and medical evacuation operation for a missing or injured person south of a shelter near Rocky Tower in Amherst County, Virginia. They established verbal contact, confirmed approximate distances, and prepared for hoist extraction using UTV and ground units.
Audio|Source: Amherst County Public Safety
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Transcript:
00:00
They can come up the road towards Rocky Tower and stop at the first intersection they hit to be a gravel road across to the right.
00:07
Park there, and I will send the pedal of UTV back to pick them up.
00:12
I got it.
00:20
I'm going to achieve two to Amherst or 800 under it.
00:28
Say yes, he did.
00:31
Go ahead, sir.
00:34
The gentleman from the Forest Service is just linked up with us.
00:38
I believe he will grab me to the spokes of the wheel and start following.
00:43
And whenever you send that public fool in here, have them grab the other half, please.
00:49
All right, okay.
00:51
Other UTV status.
00:53
Takeo seven.
00:58
Okay,
01:01
is she at the shelter?
01:07
Is she at the shelter? Is she at the shelter up there?
01:15
No, sir.
01:24
All right, relevant to the shelter, where is she? I've got state police right here with me.
01:31
I would be south.
01:33
Let me see if I can give you an approximate distance.
01:37
Okay, she's south.
01:46
She's in a straight line.
01:49
She's a mile from the shelter, so it's probably a couple miles by trail.
01:56
Okay.
01:58
Okay.
01:59
Okay.
02:03
Amherst is in, too.
02:04
You have verbal contact.
02:08
Do you have verbal contact?
02:11
Yes, ma'am.
02:12
Thank you.
02:14
Awesome, 1235.
02:18
8.0, correct, so 8.02, soon as you can give coordinates to that, we're going to be perfect.
02:23
All right.
02:28
Chief dispatch already has them if you want to get them from her.
02:36
I have some of that visual.
02:41
10-4[1], 1230, take them.
02:45
Hey there two, three more, get ready to start in from the UTV with other piece of your equipment.
02:50
And I'm going to send him out for another group.
02:52
Let me know how many thank you going to need.
02:56
We've got at least three more?
03:02
Sounds good.
03:04
They're opening you a hole up up here on this ridge right above y'all where you left me.
03:08
You feel comfortable getting it back to here.
03:10
I'm left. First minute, two eight.
03:14
Medic 28.
03:17
Transporting one patient, one's from general, not emergent.
03:22
1237.
03:25
If I can get them for you again.
03:28
No, I'll get them from disposed.
03:29
Stay-bye.
03:34
807.
03:35
Yes,
03:37
sir.
03:40
All right, we're at 1176A.
03:43
Do we keep straight up the mountain to get to the tower?
03:47
Yes, sir, just putting four-wheel take you time, and you'll see ribbon-tight on each side of the trail.
03:53
Just parked there, do not come down that trail and in that vehicle.
03:57
Pella UTV will get you from there.
04:02
10-4[1], we're almost there.
04:05
Come in all units, hold traffic for a moment.
04:08
Ambers, can you give me the coordinates where 8.07 gave you where they're going to do the hoist from?
04:19
8.07, is that going to be the last coordinate? Did you just gave me?
04:24
Yes, ma'am.
04:27
Command,
04:29
it's going to be latitude 37.80-418, repeating 37.80418, longitude, negative 79.17109, repeating negative 79.17109, repeating negative 79.17109.
04:52
Okay, we call there.
04:58
Hey there's you.
05:00
Probably receive you.
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10-4: Acknowledgment/Affirmative
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