Search Underway for Missing Elderly Woman in Woods, Durham NC
Missing PersonA search and rescue team is looking for a missing 90-year-old woman near Robinwood Road and Highway 54 in Durham, North Carolina. Multiple rescue units are coordinating by radio and using horns and voice calls to locate her in a wooded area near a creek. They are trying to communicate with her by phone and encouraging her to sing and use a flashlight. Searchers are moving through the woods and along trails to find her.
Audio|Source: Durham City Fire
08:22
Transcript:
00:00
I got somebody flag me down now.
00:03
Yeah, that's somebody who don't know where she is either. So either I can give you directions or you can go with her. She falls as well.
00:13
Let me make contact with her a quick.
00:24
You want to know 0.14 miles down the dirt road.
00:32
I'm going to stay here with a friend. These are friends of the 90-year-old. I'm going to stay here. You keep going down the road and follow communications directions.
00:39
All right, 10-4[1]. 0.14.
00:45
That's correct.
00:46
0.14. And it's not a 9-year-old, is a 9-0-0-0-year-old.
00:52
Yeah, I copy. I cut myself off.
00:55
Cameron, no problem.
00:56
322, when you get to that location,
00:59
it should be exactly where the police symbol is on your map.
01:03
You're going to go directly west. You should be able to yell out to her. She should be able to hear you. I'm going to try to call her back.
01:11
Okay,
01:18
boy. And her name's the end.
01:20
Her name is (name withheld).
01:30
300 of fire.
01:33
When you come down this dirt road, you'll see me set up. That's the last location of friends. You hear the 90 old.
01:40
10-4[1].
01:42
322, you've gone too far.
01:48
This road.
01:52
Moving problem near Robinwood Road cross of L green road and window 5 squad 4
02:04
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channel 3
02:24
She keeps hanging the phone up on me. I don't think she understands what I'm telling her.
02:30
See you, Carrie, so I just blew my arrow horn about 15 times on if you're copying it up.
02:44
More time, I got her back on the phone.
02:54
She's hearing you now.
03:01
Did she see any of our legs? 22's got his...
03:09
I can hear in the woods now. Yeah,
03:13
she's going to be probably, I say, 3 to 400 yards south of my AVL position.
03:27
Hey, Fray, I'm out of my car, hit your air horn.
03:34
Alright.
03:44
I think she's down in a light, a flashlight.
03:52
Three on you. If you were to pass my SDV stay right there.
03:55
This is three hundred. I'm in the woods.
03:58
I don't see any way.
04:05
I'm having her try to sing. She likes to sing, so I'm going to try to sing real loud for you.
04:12
Sarah and Fraser, because you guys aren't seen, come to my location. There's a trail right here. I want you to walk the trail into the woods.
04:20
Okay.
04:22
John, I'm approaching you guys on foot. I'm on that dirt road now.
04:28
It would also be advised. It looks like there's a creek in that area that she might be, so she might not be able to see you on a flat area.
04:40
I've got 311 making entrance onto a Little Creek Trail,
04:44
and she's getting louder.
04:47
Her yell is getting louder, she's coming back towards us.
04:53
She'll be closer towards 54.
05:06
It's 24. I'm not to be pulling up. I'm staying on 54 from the late-home.
05:11
I'm coming there.
05:21
21, can you get any further down on Nelson Highway from your position?
05:27
I'm about 100 yards south of where your vehicles are at.
05:32
Give me a favor, walk along the edge of the woods, along 54, and keep walking back towards Chapel Hill, see if you can get, uh,
05:40
you can hear at all.
05:43
Several there.
05:44
300, I'm on the trail now. Do you want me to keep walking in?
05:49
Yeah, 10-4[1].
05:51
If you're on the trail on there, then, if you're on there, then, walk back, he's going to be somewhere between my AVL and 54.
05:57
Probably about...
06:04
All right, I have her singing Happy Birthday and all everything.
06:11
Did she have a flashlight?
06:16
Did somebody just find her?
06:21
You're not looking her yet.
06:25
This is 311. Does (name withheld) have a flashlight? Because I see a light in the woods.
06:30
She has a light on her phone that I think she has on.
06:35
313 on the trail.
06:37
And there's water back there.
06:47
You still see her light?
06:51
Negative.
06:55
You see a light in the woods?
06:58
11 did. It's going to be deeper. I just hear her to sing louder.
07:03
It might be somebody from on 54.
07:09
I'm going to try to get her to sing again.
07:15
I'm going to be it from 13.
07:17
Looks like there's a spillway little creek.
07:21
That's probably bad.
07:23
100 yards north of 54.
07:27
Might be that.
07:31
At 311, you're walking right towards a little creek pond.
07:36
There's on the road with their flashlight point of the woods. She's in between us.
07:42
11, I'm walking that way.
07:47
On 13, repeat that again.
07:49
What'd you say?
07:50
I'm walking in the woods, she's in between. Whoever I am,
07:53
I got two flashlights on the street, she's in between us.
07:58
It's going to be 20... And then I'm coming in.
08:01
That's forward.
08:06
Everybody's talking over each other. Everyone's talking over each other. I want to slow down here.
08:13
Hi, Aver.
08:16
Do you have her?
08:18
Two-four.
08:20
Get some coming towards you.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment / OK
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NC-54, Durham, NC
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