Search for intoxicated man lost near woods and atv trail, Stafford VA


Emergency teams are searching for a highly intoxicated man lost in woods near a natural spring and an ATV trail. The man cannot call 911 due to no cell service. Multiple rescue units and a drone are assisting the operation near Harpoon Dr.
Audio|Source: Stafford County and Fredericksburg Fire and EMS
06:37
Transcript:
00:00
Operation 50, we're also trying to get the subject to dial in to us on 911, so we could try to get an exact location.
00:06
Copy. Until we get a better word from Engine Man, we'll have the incoming unit stage at a quiet town center.
00:13
Indirect,
00:14
incoming unit stage at a quiet town center, 1995.
00:17
Track 2 or staging?
00:18
Track 2 staging.
00:19
9506. 2nd 3 is staged at Slipo.
00:22
We're going to stay here and walk down into the woods.
00:25
You can see anything down the gravel road.
00:26
The caller is indicating that he does not have service to call 911.
00:34
If you have your light on, we can ask him to see if you can see those.
00:37
Port Staging is probably something.
00:39
Correct. Inge Port Staging at 1957.
00:42
New 9 officer for engine 9 driver.
00:44
So do you see from engine 9.
00:45
Go ahead.
00:46
Spoke to the subjects for other, for sister, excuse me, they does not have any by my iPhone or anything like that.
00:51
There are cow trails back in the woods back here that they normally walk on.
00:56
We're looking for an access now to see if that's accessible from Harpoon or some of the place.
01:02
Structure fire[1].
01:03
We'll be at Station 1 cover in the city post.
01:05
Okay.
01:06
Okay. So I've got engine 8 truck 2, Rescue 14, staging at the quiet town center.
01:12
What do you recommend we do? Just hold tight?
01:14
Yeah, hold tight.
01:15
It is sounding like he does have normal back pain.
01:18
This might end up being more of a search and rescue.
01:20
as opposed to an injury in the woods.
01:27
Okay, Snagher, contact sheriff's office asking if they can get a drone.
01:32
Direct, 1959.
01:34
Engine 9 from Stafford, the subject is indicating that he's near a natural spring.
01:40
I'm not sure if the sibling can advise any better on that.
01:45
Okay, we'll check.
01:46
Operations, Deputy.
01:47
We have a Sheriff's Office sergeant that's en route.
01:50
He's going to
01:51
stand by on the drone until he gets on scene.
01:53
Okay. I'll establish command.
01:54
I'll get you a better location once we get a permanent location.
01:56
You can have your sergeant from Sheriff's Office.
01:58
Come find me.
01:59
201. And is 9.
02:00
Go ahead.
02:01
Looking at the map,
02:02
it looks like the best place for the spring to be right behind wide-rider lot of entry, off Denrich.
02:06
I don't know if we want to send her over there.
02:09
I'll open that's a little far. Okay. Commander, where does this guy leave to go into the woods at?
02:15
Do we know?
02:16
We'll try to ascertain.
02:17
He did indicate that he was now not near the natural spring, that he's near an ATD trail.
02:24
He's extremely intoxicated.
02:26
Also, can I...
02:27
patch you with our Sheriff's Office Sergeant is requesting it to be passed with you via phone.
02:35
In just a minute.
02:36
You're right, 20-02.
02:37
The man for Savaver, the caller is indicating that he left from his residence (number withheld) Harpoon Dr and just walked straight back into the woods.
02:45
Mr. Command, Part check.
02:49
Sorry,
02:50
he's from command.
02:51
I've got FM 1701 and FM 1703 working in the IVLH environment.
02:56
All of the units are outside.
02:57
Coney from the State Park Check.
02:59
Correct, 2004.
03:00
Yeah. So we're going to move, we're looking at the maps.
03:02
We're going to move the station location to (number withheld) Harpoon.
03:07
And we'll run everything from there.
03:08
Looks like it's going to be the closest thing.
03:09
There's some logging trails back there just talking to a captain from 2, which you measure with the area.
03:14
We also got a citizen that's got a thermal drone and he's going to deploy it from the same location.
03:19
Okay, I'm direct.
03:20
We found what appears to be a pretty clear walking path back here that looks a head source of ATB turtles on the map.
03:27
We're walking that direction now.
03:29
My driver is staying at (number withheld) to leave on with a sister who's taking care of their sick mom.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Structure fire: Possible fire call (mentioned, but not primary event here)
Disclaimer:
This was transcribed by AI and may contain errors. Please verify the information independently.
Location mentioned:
Near Harpoon Dr, Stafford, VA 22554
Correct
Incorrect