Search for overturned kayak near highway 17 bridge, Davenport FL
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Missing PersonEmergency teams are searching for an overturned kayak believed to be near the bridge on Highway 17 around Whidden Creek and Pine Lake. The kayak is drifting west, and responders are using drones to locate it. The search area includes a phosphate pit south of the Wilderness Campground. Water levels are low in some creek sections, making the kayak's path uncertain.
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00:00
First, 11, 421, and Princess Station 12, 5 person, 209, (number withheld) Street, Tax 5, 851.
00:11
On our point.
00:12
At 6, if we can have engine 10, stop at the bridge there right at wilderness,
00:21
then just have them look down in the water.
00:25
He's overturned and drifting west and he can hear the sirens, so it's going to be near that bridge at 17.
00:34
It's on Whidden Creek, copy.
00:38
Mr. Ted, you copy?
00:43
I heard bridge on 17, what was that, another location?
00:49
Drifting west, so if we can get out there at the bridge and take a look around there.
00:55
Drone one, does S.O.
00:57
has a drone on scene also where we can move one of ours or move ours to the bridge.
01:02
Daggett, I'm going to launch from my location here at Wilderness, and the last ping on Live911 right now shows drifting toward that bridge from the east side.
01:14
And he can hear the sirens coming up to a little open area with a cattle gate.
01:19
So I'm going to launch and see if we can catch him before he goes under the bridge.
01:24
So can you redirect, Gail the Sheriff's Office, and redirect there, Jones, the bridge?
01:30
Geez, they've already left my location.
01:34
Copy that.
01:36
This, Asch, can you relay that information to PCS, though, that we need a drone on the bridge on Highway 17?
01:41
Hi, Robert.
01:42
And also, that was negative on the coordinates about his location.
01:48
Understood.
01:54
I'm doing one do I need to go to the bridge on 17 or do I need to come to your location?
02:03
Judge 10, rescue 10.
02:05
Go ahead and go down that road the 17th head I thought.
02:10
I copy.
02:12
Yes, I change you, Tim.
02:15
Go ahead.
02:16
Angie Tim, will you say, should be ma'am for a brush truck?
02:20
Negative.
02:21
HACA.
02:23
2-2.
02:29
Definition.
02:31
Definition 854.
02:36
14. 14.
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14.
02:40
14. 14. 14.
02:41
14. 14.
02:42
You chose in route.
02:44
I have you.
02:50
Who else? Contact with the caller?
02:53
Did he ever actually say where he put in at?
03:02
Oh, yeah, 12.
03:05
Back on.
03:09
The backland line, he's a vi- and he's in Pine Lake.
03:14
Yeah,
03:15
I don't think anybody's familiar with that.
03:17
Can you ask him where he put in at?
03:21
Okay.
03:28
NU-19, Rush 19, Matt 7.
03:30
Rush, Highway 98 West of Metaway.
03:32
Select Pack 9, all units, Pack 9, Apis, 5.
03:36
11.
03:44
Reggie 11.
03:47
Dr. 11, go ahead.
03:52
Richard 11, just advise you, we'll respond with no fire.
03:56
Fire Highway 98 West, Metal Way, Frost Group.
03:59
A point even along the area at Bocci Salt, pass lines, advise the grass was on fire,
04:04
possibly near Lauren Lane and Rodin Lane.
04:10
Patrick's time, so.
04:15
Question 19, Your Lawon.
04:21
Senator Tuss.
04:25
Squad 21.
04:27
Please add the squad 21 and brush 21 to the brush fire.
04:33
Okay. Howie, how many 98?
04:35
Hock up.
04:38
Squad 21, so like attack 9, attack 9.
04:40
Attack 9.
04:45
Okay. Can I copy a row agency?
04:47
Go ahead.
04:49
Hey, Captain Tann is coming from another station.
04:51
He's just getting into Fort Me, and I told him the band of brush truck select TAC 9 for you whenever he gets there for your brush fire.
04:59
Roger, thank you.
05:02
Tender 12 is back.
05:09
Tinder 12.
05:11
You can put me on this call.
05:12
Show me your response.
05:17
There's four of our copy.
05:19
I'll show you around the area of grass fire, highway 98 west, Meadowland, frostproof.
05:25
Let me a remote area of grass burning.
05:28
We're always no longer in the area.
05:30
It's possibly near Lauren Lane and Rodin Lane.
05:34
857.
05:36
Rescue 2.30.
05:40
2.30.
05:47
2.50 responding.
05:50
2.30 to respondent, 838.
05:55
Agent 38.
05:57
Angel 38.
06:00
Angel 38.
06:03
Both unit station contact under control.
06:07
Pace your contact under control, AP2A.
06:10
Page up.
06:19
I thought the river went under right just to the south of the Wilderness Campground here.
06:26
They're showing on the pin currently, he's directly south,
06:32
but east of the highway.
06:34
And it looks like in a phosphate pit area.
06:37
I'll try to gather more information.
06:39
I am airborne,
06:41
scanning the river area from wilderness back towards 17.
06:46
I'm still UTO.
06:48
Understood.
06:49
I'm at that location right here outside of Camp Wilderness.
06:51
There's not much water in this creek down here, so I'm not real sure if he's made it this far.
06:57
Copy that. What is looking like on their last ping is a phosphate pit directly due south of Wilderness Campground just east of 17.
07:10
I don't know if you can pull a Google Map,
07:13
and we'll try to locate that.
07:19
Thank you, 19.
07:25
Otluss are calling that phosphate pit Pine Lake and it looks like it has dikes in the center.
07:33
It's almost a z- zigzag pattern in the middle of a square phosphate pit.
07:39
Due south, if you see that on Google Maps, that's what they're showing the things coming from currently.
07:45
And ESO has left me heading down south to try to make access to that location.
07:51
Okay, understood.
07:52
Just FYI, I'm down here underneath the bridge.
07:54
This water is about shin high, so I don't think he's even going to make it over here in a kayak.
08:00
That's the same thing I'm seeing on this river.
08:02
I think we're going to have to relocate down south to that other fossil area.
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