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The search for a missing 11-year-old boy was suspended late Saturday because of darkness and the fatigue of first responders, according to Wichita Fire Department battalion chief Scott Brown. The boy was swept away in a swollen creek on Friday night.
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The Wichita, Kansas, Fire Department says two cadaver dogs are being brought in to help with the search for an 11-year-old boy who was swept away by rushing water.
The search resumed Saturday morning after rescuers were forced to abandon their efforts Friday night when water levels receded too much to use boats in a normally dry creek.
The boy fell into Gypsum Creek around 7:30 p.m. Friday as he was crossing a footbridge. Rescuers spent three hours looking for him before giving up for the night.
The department says on its Facebook page that crews are searching every inch of the creek in what is now a recovery effort.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) —Officials in Wichita on Saturday continued their search for an 11-year-old boy who fell into a rain-swollen creek and was swept away.
The Wichita Eagle reports that Fire Battalion Chief John Turner said rescuers did a “very thorough” search for the 11-year-old after he and two friends were crossing Gypsum Creek on a footbridge and the boy fell in about 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Turner says Friday’s full search was called off at 10:30 p.m. because water levels had receded too much to use boats in the creek. Officials said they’d resume the search Saturday morning.
Turner says he hopes the boy could have gotten out of the creek on his own, but that crews are considering it a recovery operation.