BATAVIA, Ohio — Multiple law enforcement and fire units searched creek beds and wooded fields off Chapel Road and state Route 132 in Batavia Township Thursday afternoon after a 6-year-old child wandered away from a nearby home, according to initial emergency radio traffic.
Units began tracking the child shortly after 3:10 p.m., following a creek north from Chapel Road toward a pond and then into wooded terrain near Lucy Run Cemetery Road, radio traffic indicated. Searchers requested a drone to help cover the area as the search expanded through several fields and a creek bed.
A search team member radioed that the child had been out of sight for approximately an hour by that point, according to the traffic. Paramedics were dispatched to the area of Lucy Run Cemetery Road around 3:25 p.m. as ground teams worked to close in on his location.
By about 3:30 p.m., a searcher reported making verbal and then visual contact with the child, and radio traffic indicated he was being walked out of the woods to meet waiting medics and deputies near Lucy Run Cemetery Road.
No further injuries or complications were reported on the radio before crews cleared the scene, according to the traffic.
The information contained in this story was obtained from initial emergency radio traffic monitored by the Clermont Guardian and has not been confirmed by officials. Details may change.