Person seen standing in river at Volunteer Park

Heard on: Rock County Public Safety

01:33

This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Can someone respond to Volunteer Park? There's another caller saying, there's a caller saying that from her apartment window, she or from her window, she sees someone that appears to be in the water.

00:18

She's not sure if there's.

00:19

Struggling or if they're walking, she's going to walk outside right now.

00:25

Two forty-one, I can go.

00:31

He's already always on, but I can back him up if needed.

00:39

Forty-two 50 , what's your status there? I can check on the river before I head over there if it's okay.

00:48

Just wait, traffic.

00:54

2315 dispatch.

00:58

2315.

01:00

Can you close me out of any calls that you might have me on and then log me off of CAD please? Any reports or calls can be no report.

01:17

So it appears that there's a person standing in the water.

01:19

It looks like the person in the water with a bag is picking up things out of the river.

01:24

So it doesn't necessarily appear that they're in distress.

01:26

They've got a black coat on and I think they're carrying a white bag.

01:29

And I don't know if it's a man or a woman at this point.

01:32

They're walking towards the dam.

2026-11-03 17:33 UTC

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Ardon Park, 2201 Refset Dr, Janesville, WI 53545

Person seen standing in river at Volunteer Park

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Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, dispatch received a report of a person possibly in the water at Volunteer Park. Responding units reported a person standing in the river with a bag, appearing to pick up items and walking toward the dam, without obvious signs of distress.

Person seen standing in river at Volunteer Park

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