Search ongoing for missing person near hotel on Valencia road, Tucson AZ
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Missing PersonAccording to the dispatch call, emergency responders conduct a search near a hotel close to Valencia Road for a possible missing person or animal detected by heat sensors in a wash area. Units use aerial cameras for coordination and report strong heat sources but uncertainty if the source is a person or animal.
Audio|Heard on: Tucson Police/Fire Citywide
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04:45
Transcript:
00:00
Everyone gets back into the desert area.
00:06
I'm giving you a light.
00:07
We're just west of the hotel close to Valencia.
00:13
There's some tunnels that go under Valencia to the south.
00:18
There's no...
00:22
We'll sign indication before that.
00:25
That somebody got in there, but this is right around where (name withheld) was last seen.
00:27
It goes south all the way across the Valencia, but we're back at this wash area.
00:34
Do you have any indication or any hot spots we need to check just west of the hotel in the wash?
00:45
Acknowledgment or affirmative, yeah,
00:47
actually,
00:48
any of those.
00:50
50, 75 feet just north of you guys down that wash.
00:54
I have a pretty strong heat source right there.
01:02
Okay, we're going to work that way.
01:07
Sam 9 to Air.
01:09
Do you have us in your view on the camera, and if so, can you give us a picture so we can reference it? It's super thick in there.
01:19
Yes, acknowledgment.
01:26
Medic 16, sick person, near South Sherwood Village Drive, unit number withheld. Respond on A-5E.
01:41
Sam 9, Air, let me know when you send that picture.
01:47
Everyone is just right.
01:50
Copy, I got it.
01:55
So the cross areas on the screen is your heat source?
02:00
Yes, acknowledgment.
02:02
Quite a lot of brush there between the two of you.
02:09
Yeah.
02:11
Can we get a request for towing experts?
02:15
It's near East 17th Street to open a back gate back here.
02:19
Copy, copy.
02:24
34, central 16-light 8-1, it can cancel.
02:27
So it's 24 available.
02:30
Moving up, pretty good.
02:38
Can you try to let us know when we're getting pretty close to it?
02:43
It might be crawl in.
02:45
You guys are just west of it now.
02:47
If you just look east, it might be in that brushy area.
02:54
Not sure if it's an animal or a person.
03:03
Got it.
03:09
Come back,
03:10
just look east, just a little bit south of you.
03:15
How far east is going to be?
03:18
You guys are probably about 10, 15 feet away from it.
03:26
You're going to say to one.
03:28
8.1,
03:32
go ahead.
03:35
Got the TMC with 879.
03:42
Copy 801, following 879.
03:48
Second animal you've walked up on, he's a little bit more aggressive.
03:51
We got growling in the bushes.
03:52
We're going to start moving out.
03:58
Copy. Yeah, pretty strong heat sources.
04:01
Yeah, but I can't really tell from here if it's somebody like trying to crawl or an actual animal.
04:06
Pretty well.
04:07
Big brush.
04:19
How about I see?
04:22
135.
04:28
Where we have eyes on them,
04:30
no movement, just directly used to us.
04:32
No response to commands.
04:35
We're down in the brush.
04:43
Nine two, stand by one, stand five.
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W Valencia Rd, Tucson, AZ
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