Person reported missing after entering river in Reading, Reading PA
Missing PersonEmergency responders are searching the river near River Rd and Clinton St in Reading after a person was seen entering the water and is now missing. Multiple people were reported in the river initially, but one individual is unaccounted for. The area has fog and roads nearby have been closed during the search.
Audio|Source: Berks County Fire and EMS - Digital
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Transcript:
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We're down on the edge of the water here where we're at.
00:03
Through the fog, we can't feel a whole lot, but for my advantage, we don't have anything that we can see.
00:09
Can you get up onto the Sukul Avenue Bridge and look down and not try with an advantage point?
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I've had in about 10 minutes.
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I'm coming from here for township.
00:24
I don't want to, you go and respond as the ladder with the boat.
00:32
We're going to want to vote.
00:37
Okay.
00:40
$600 is a quarter nine and I'm heading out that way,
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all soft operations.
00:47
Okay.
00:49
9 is 21.
00:56
Like, see where you can find for something that looks out in the river there.
01:01
And I'm sure you guys will beat me in there.
01:04
Let me know what we see.
01:05
Where you, Will, you got one call on it.
01:09
That's correct. Only one call on it. It is. Not a 7 car knot.
01:18
All right, nice seven.
01:21
I have the caller here. She's saying that she saw her friend in the water.
01:25
She's here. She's pretty ecstatic, but she's Spanish-speaking only.
01:35
Okay.
01:40
Medic 7. Can you give a better location of where in the water she was?
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Injafide radio, we're available.
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Enterfine is available.
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Hi-a-radio.
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Part 9.
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With that eyewitness report, give you the other two engines.
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P.
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Receive. Radio Rescue 1.
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I can rescue one.
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Just to confirm your responding.
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As a problem with it.
02:23
Okay, receive.
02:29
You're checking, I'll put this in nine to proper for that. Were you clear of the other one then?
02:33
Proved.
02:35
Okay.
02:40
9 in engine 3.
02:42
River Road and Clinton Street assist on possible multiple people in the river.
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0655.
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42209. That was he's off the legate.
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It's fog.
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Understood.
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I just have on the radio.
03:12
I have summit closed down. We have both lanes now closed.
03:20
Alright, you need me to do something?
03:22
Or am I good to go?
03:26
I would say you're good to go. I mean, what's happening here? It doesn't look like what I'm saying you're too much longer.
03:35
Well, they're all looking at another house, though.
03:41
Okay, that was a confusion.
03:43
Yeah, I'm here at some of the media and both lanes are now closed with apparatus.
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Location mentioned:
River Rd & Clinton St, Reading, PA 19601
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