UPDATE: Search continues for man in Great Miami River Thursday
UPDATE: 3 p.m.
Officials with the Dayton Fire Department provided the latest information on the recovery mission for a man who fell into the Great Miami River Thursday afternoon.
News Center 7 will have the latest information on this search tonight on News Center 7 at 5:00.
Dayton Fire District Chief Tyler McCoy said crews believe they know the area where the man’s body may be, due to technology and K9 indication.
Current river conditions make it unsafe for divers to enter the water.
Crews will search until 9 p.m. and will resume Saturday morning if they do not find the man, McCoy said.
UPDATE @7:45 a.m.
Crews are back out this morning to resume searching for a man who fell into the Great Miami River Thursday afternoon.
>> PHOTOS: Water rescue underway at Great Miami River in Dayton
As Xavier Hershovitz reported on News Center 7′s Daybreak, search operations were suspended Thursday evening due to darkness and safety concerns.
The incident has also transitioned into a recovery operation, according to Dayton Fire Assistant Chief Brad French.
As News Center 7 reported on Thursday, the original call occurred around 4 p.m. on initial reports of an adult male in the water in the Great Miami River near West Monument Avenue.
A full water rescue response from the Dayton Fire Department arrived and crews began working to identify where the male was last seen.
Crews will be technology to try and find the man.
When crews resume searching, they will be back out with a specific place to start.
“The ODNR sonar operator had some areas he wanted to investigate so we’ll probably start with that,” said David Grubb, District Fire Chief. “But we’ll see in the morning what the water looks like and if they want to search with the sonar first or take off where we left off.”
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In a 911 call to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch obtained by News Center 7, a caller said he saw a man jump into the river.
“We’re working down here, we watched him jump in and he never came back up,” the caller told dispatchers.
The caller identified himself as part of a construction company working near the Dayton Art Institute.
Multiple departments are involved including the Dayton Police Department, Five Rivers MetroParks, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Five Rivers MetroParks is handling the investigation, according to law enforcement.
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Crews will be back out Friday morning to search for a man they fell into the Great Miami River Thursday afternoon.
>> PHOTOS: Water rescue underway at Great Miami River in Dayton
Active search operations were suspended Thursday evening due to darkness and safety concerns, according to Dayton Fire Assistant Chief Brad French.
He said the incident has transitioned into a recovery operation and the search will resume Friday morning.
We reported this as breaking news during News Center 7 at 5 p.m. Thursday.
The original call came in around 4 p.m. on initial reports of an adult male in the water in the Great Miami River near West Monument Avenue.
>>RELATED: Search for male reported missing in Great Miami River at Dayton to resume Friday
A full water rescue response from the Dayton Fire Department arrived and crews began working to identify the location where the male was last seen.
In a 911 call to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch obtained by News Center 7, a caller said he saw a man jump into the river.
“We’re working down here, we watched him jump in and he never came back up,” the caller told dispatchers.
The caller identified himself as part of a construction company working near the Dayton Art Institute.
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Hershovitz says the search was called around 9 p.m.
When crews resume searching, they will be back out with a specific place to start.
“The ODNR sonar operator had some areas he wanted to investigate so we’ll probably start with that,” said David Grubb, District Fire Chief. “But we’ll see in the morning what the water looks like and if they want to search with the sonar first or take off where we left off.”
Crews will be back out to continue the search.
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Multiple departments are involved including the Dayton Police Department, Five Rivers MetroParks, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Five Rivers MetroParks is handling the investigation, according to law enforcement.
We will update you on what they find later today on News Center at 5 p.m.
