November 12, 1994, 1400 hours
The S&R was put on standby for a lost hunter. We
were disregarded at 1425 hours
December 5 & 6, 1995,
The S&R was requested to assist Preble County
Sheriff’s Office on a search for a missing
distraught young adult male. The team spent most of
the day there with other search teams, Preble County
called off the search.
April 26, 1997, 1900 hours
The S&R was requested to assist Miami Twp Police
Department in a search for a Critical Missing
elderly female. She had been missing for 2 days, as
we were discussing the particulars of the incident
with the Officer in Charge, the female arrived home.
All OK and a happy disregard.
May 11, 1997, 1544 hours
The S&R was put on standby for a 7 yom believed
missing from Monroe Woods Apts on S R 125, Clermont
County. As the team was activating the child was
located at a relatives house.
May 16, 1997, 2230 hours
The S&R was put on standby for a possible search for
2 teen aged boys missing from the East Fork State
Park Camp Grounds. They were located before we were
dispatched to the scene by local firefighters,
patrolling the area in a fire truck.
April 17, 1998, 2004 hours
The S&R responded to East Fork State Park to assist
in the search of two 10 yoms. At 2049 hours the
boys were found by good Samaritans who knew they
were missing and were driving through the park
looking for them.
August 17, 1998, 0917
The S&R were put on standby for possible assistance
with the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office, for a
missing 17 yom. He had been partying with friends
on the shore of Stonelick Lake. After further
interrogation of his friends it was discovered a
tragic accident had occurred and the young man was
dead. We were disregarded.
February 11, 1999, 0730 hours
The S&R assisted in the Erica Baker Search on the
outskirts if Dayton.
November 14, 1999, 2200 hours
The S&R was requested to respond and be ready to
search at first light on the 15th. A 56 yom had
left home to go on his first bow hunting trip in
years. When he did not return after a full days
absence his family notified the East Fork Rangers.
The Rangers, Sheriff’s Office, K-9’s and helicopter
with heat sensitive equipment failed to locate the
subject through the night. Our first team started
our search at 0743 hours. At 1045 hours one of our
mounted teams found a deer that had been killed by
an arrow. We were able to quickly determine the
arrow had belonged to the lost subject. At 1120 we
had 3 more mounted teams and another foot team
prepared to join the search when one of our mounted
teams found the man, he had succumbed to a heart
attack.
November 20, 2001, 1804 hours
The S&R was called to assist the Clermont County
Sheriff’s Office in a search for an overdue hunter.
She was located at 2033 hours when she heard one of
our members calling to her. A sheriff’s deputy was
closer and was able to follow her voice to her. S&R
members then guided the EMS to her location so she
could be carried out on a stretcher as she had a
possible broken leg.
January 1, 2001, 0642 hours
The S&R put on standby for 8 yom missing from
Williamsburg, Ohio. A door to door search was
taking place in Williamsburg, if that was not
successful they wanted our team to search the
surrounding areas. He was located at 0836 hrs.
August 16 & 17, 2002, 2355 hours
The S&R assisted the East Fork State Park Rangers in
searching for 2 lost girls missing from the Camp
Ground. We searched until 0300 hours, then returned
and began searching at 0730 hours on the 17th. A
work crew from the Clermont County, Ohio Horseman’s
Council was out doing trail clean up and the 2 girls
walked up to them. They were hungry and scratched up
but OK otherwise.
April 29, 2003, 2248 hours
At 2018 hours a 2 1/2 yom was discovered missing
from his home. The residence was on a country road
with neighbors on both sides, the terrain was hilly
with a steep drop off over 60 foot at the rear of
the property, with a creek at the bottom. The creek
had very little flow in dry weather and very rocky.
After a door to door search of the neighborhood, a
K-9 search and a helicopter with heat sensitive
search equipment failed, the Sheriff's Office called
the local fire dept. and the S&R for man power to do
a line search on foot from the road across the
yards, down the hill to the creek and beyond if
necessary. The creek ran paralel with the road.
The moving was slow due to the terrain and brush.
One of our members found the little boy asleep on a
large rock in the creek, he was a little scratched
up, however, OK.
May 24, 2003, 1944 hrs
The S&R was put on standby for 9 lost subjects at
East Fork State Park, they had been on a short hike
and 8 hours later, still had not returned.
At 2006 we were asked to respond and were
disregarded enroute, they had made it to a boat ramp
and were discovered there.
October 20, 2004,
The S&R were requested to assist Oxford P D in the search for an 81 yom, alzheimer's patient, who had gone missing. The team spent several hours there with other search teams until the search was called off. The elderly male was found later that fall, by a hunter in a small wooded area in the center of a large crop field.
