All,

 I'm sorry to announce the passing of William "Bill" Skelton.

 Bill was a great guy. He was always ready to lend a hand and always making people laugh. He was devoted to his dog and to search and rescue. His sudden departure saddens us all.

 RIP Bill, you will be missed.

I will post more information as it becomes available.

-Bob

Tri-State Search and Rescue was out this evening looking for missing teenager Tony Beard Jr. in Mt. Airy forest this evening. Search efforts have been suspended for the night. Whether or not the search will resume on Thursday is up the Cincinnati Police investigators handling the event.

 I would like the thank all of the people who volunteered to come out and lend a hand in the effort.  The importance of volunteers willing to cooperate with a coordinated search cannot be underestimated. However, we would like to take this chance to remind everyone that just running out into the woods is not only dangerous, but can contaminate existing evidence. We are very pleased to have been able to provide coordination and communications for this event, and it is very important to us that as many people come out of the woods as went in. Again, thanks to everyone who was out for this young man's well being.

 I would also like to again thank Scripps Howard for primary funding for our response trailer. This is the second event that we've had it for and I cannot stress enough how much more effective we are with all the tools at our disposal thanks to their generosity.

 White Oak LaRosa's and Papa Johns also deserve a big thank you for providing pizza for all of the volunteers. A lot of people gave up their evenings to help and it was excellent that they were willing to take care of dinner for all those folks.

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