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Search underway in woods near Williston RoadGainesville FL

audio iconMissing Person
Gainesville, FL

Police and fire units are searching a wooded area near Williston Road using a drone and all-terrain vehicles. The search focuses on trails and locked gates around the last place a missing person was seen entering the woods. Efforts continue to locate the individual in the area.

Audio|Source: Gainesville Police and Alachua Fire
02:16
Transcript:
00:00
All right, I'm going to go to the north side with the drone and kind of pan all the way along Williston Road, Peter Mike to see, into the front of the woodline.
00:12
Latchewa, C6-5. C2-5.
00:16
Lift assistant only show us available, please.
00:18
Oh, there's C-Sageville, CISC only show available, 13, 12 hours.
00:25
One of the FWC guys here is offering us ATVs if we want them just for y'all 43[1].
00:35
So informing us there's a secondary trail right here of SWC that goes straight down across the prairie.
00:48
Blue left 53? Yes.
00:51
Littlewoods block down completely, so I think.
00:54
James. All right, can you flag down that SWC guy again?
01:04
Okay.
01:05
See if one of them will drive this trail. That way we don't get the doctor or anything with our patrol for us.
01:09
6.5398, 214, 1075.
01:14
So, fifth, alpha, with AT&G, southeast 7th Avenue and 10th Street, 1370.
01:20
One.
01:26
Here's the last place we actually saw him or heard him.
01:34
I think that would be me, Bobby.
01:37
And it's like on,
01:39
just like a block north of you at the FVC Center on the Williston Roadside, and he was going into the woods.
01:46
All right.
01:47
So I see you. I'm just here in the north, I guess. I'm going to check between you and me.
01:54
(number withheld).
02:01
Hey, Bunny, right where I'm at,
02:05
there is a, looks like a two-track road with a gate that's locked.
02:08
There's a sign that says airport this way.
02:11
It looks like a pretty well-defined trail too, so this might be of half-leaves resistance if you want to get back out of Wilson.
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