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Shenandoah
National Park
Location: Shenandoah
National Park (Madison County, VA)
Subject: 10 year old male
Date: August
3-4, 2003
Dispatched:
1620 hours August 2
Response: 15 members responded
Search Terminated:
1939 hours August 3, subject found alive and unhurt
VDEM mission:
VA-979
Notes: A
10-year old boy from New Jersey became separated from his family at 10:00
a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 2, while hiking down Dark Hollow Falls Trail near Big
Meadow. Rangers conducted hasty searches and called for outside SAR people
beginning just after 4:00 p.m. TOVSAR responded with 3 bloodhound teams,
our SAR vehicle, and 15 members. The boy was found approx. one mile from
the point last seen, near 7:30 p.m. on Monday, minus his shoes and
glasses, with minor injuries, and transported to the hospital. TOVSAR also
provided radio communications for the search.
First mission: Dena Ewell,
Michael Frank
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