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Rescue Squad members use dog to locate lost girl near Blanton Branch
By Justin Goble
Members of the Jackson County Rescue Squad located a 16-year-old girl from Ohio who was lost in the woods near Blanton Branch Monday night (June 9).
The 16-year-old went missing sometime around 8 p.m. According to Chief George Lamphier, the county’s dispatch office received a call about the missing girl at 9 p.m.
“She’d been lost for about an hour when we were called in,” Lamphier said.
The girl had been in the woods with a group of family members but had gotten separated from the group as it got dark and could not find her way back to the others, Lamphier said.
Rescue Squad members went into the woods at around 9:45 p.m. to search for the girl, Lamphier said.
“We have a certified tracking dog that we can use for things like this,” he said. “So we used him to track her down. It didn’t take too long to find her – we had located her within 30 minutes of arriving on scene. She had gotten lost on some of the old trails in that area. She rode out of the woods with us on one of our four-wheelers.”
The girl was not harmed, Lamphier said.
“Everything went really well,” he said. “We were able to get her back safely to her family. Our guys did a great job.”
Lamphier said he did not know the girl’s name.
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