BELVIDERE, Ill. (WIFR) – The search was on for a missing family in Belvidere Saturday, but there is no need to worry.
This is for a drill put together by the Boone County Emergency Managment Agency. They closed Spencer Park in Belvidere for nine hours to execute missing person drills without interruptions. The Illinois Search and Rescue Council and agencies from southern Wisconsin participated in the full-scale search and rescue drill.
They were split into 15 teams, with 5 having search dogs and 2 teams had drones at their disposal.
“Usually it’s elderly, sometimes with some dementia. there’s a lot of distraught people who will go out and be out by themselves and we have to try and go find them,” said Boone County EMA Coordinator Dan Zaccard. “For a police department or fire department to do it on their own it would take too long. people would die.”
Organizers said the park is a perfect setting for the drill because there are lots of wooded areas and ponds.
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