One found and another fled after off-road vehicle incident, Pottsville PA
TrafficA search and recovery operation is underway near Sharon Dr for people involved in an off-road vehicle incident. One person was found, but the other fled into the nearby woods. The vehicle involved is a white Honda with minimal damage, likely stuck rather than severely damaged. The individual who fled is without shirt and shoes, wearing only jeans.
Audio|Source: Schuylkill County Fire
06:46
Transcript:
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90, G684.
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T64.
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Myself is 6853 on location.
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Okay, run the scene, 1057.
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90272.
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50272 far south.
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Go, I have 52, 772.
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Johnny arrived.
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Okay, our location 1057.
00:35
Nothing found, we're still investigating.
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Yep.
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20201.
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Go ahead.
00:49
I'm not sure if you're heading back or what you're doing, but there's any chance you can like tap a siren or something, we saw them on the line currently.
01:01
I'm going to head back there now with UTV and see if we could get close to anybody.
01:18
Go ahead, Johnny.
01:20
Letting you know, our caller says on his phone, his compass is reading 308 Northwest.
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308 Northwest.
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20201.
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I'm not sure who's back there, who we have sent back. He says he can hear someone coming on the phone currently.
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But yes, I'm back here now with the UTV. We're searching some of these roads to find out where he's at.
01:57
No one, I'm not sure if someone's yelling, you could hear that.
02:03
And Captain 6222, that truck yelling right now.
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All right.
02:10
Captain, he's saying something about he has a visual and somebody thinks.
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201, a C-52.
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Go ahead, 21.
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Eric, there was somebody walking up on the other power line.
02:30
Maybe them individuals are who we see.
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Only kept the 52-20.
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County, 20-01.
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All right, county.
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He's saying you can hear an ATV now.
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Pulling the woods through UTV and hopefully all going in the...
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Okay.
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County Captain 65.
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Go ahead, Captain.
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They're looking for a white.
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It dropped off, friggin.
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And 65 repeat.
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Are we looking...
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You keep dropping off. You're looking for a white Honda.
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That's the vehicle involved, if that's what you're asking.
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Apparently he's not by that though.
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He's in 65 or 2001.
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He is a visual on someone now. I'm not sure who's in that general area.
03:51
Got the Captain 65.
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Good Captain.
03:57
Okay, we have a visual on the vehicle.
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Did he say what direction he is from the vehicle?
04:07
Okay, someone's driving away. Whoever's on a UTV out that now, they're saying he's driving away.
04:16
Apparently he's northeast of that vehicle, our caller's telling us.
04:22
Okay, I believe 20.01 went in that direction.
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He's behind them to the right.
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Captain 16, I'll also check your phone, that's the map coming to you.
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20 Nashville County.
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Go ahead, 21.
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I'm in contact with the individual now.
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Okay, 21 in contact 1106.
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101 is from 502.
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Go ahead.
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Okay, we're on the steel pole line. You want us to make our way back down towards where you went in?
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Right below you.
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We got one individual. He doesn't know where the other individual went.
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And we didn't find a vehicle yet.
05:22
All right, we'll keep looking around up there.
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20-0-1 from 65.
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Go ahead, 65.
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I have the vehicle.
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I do not have anyone else around it.
05:39
Okay, he said he doesn't have any idea of which direction the other individual went in. Number one that's 65.
05:52
Does a vehicle look like was hit hard enough that we could have that other individual injured?
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County, 201, Captain, 65.
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Go ahead.
06:06
We just got another call that that individual went back into the woods.
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He was at near Sharon Dr.
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Near Sharon Dr, but he headed back into the woods.
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Apparently he has no shirt, no shoes on.
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He just has jeans.
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No shirt, no shoes, just jeans.
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401 from 65.
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I had 65.
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Yeah, damage to the vehicle is minimal.
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They were on a path.
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It looks like they got more stuck than anything versus truly an accident.
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Location mentioned:
Near Sharon Dr, Pottsville, PA 17901
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