An urgent cry for aid from trained first responders. Wednesday afternoon four Rogersville police and firemen arrived to help in the massive search and rescue effort.
“They checked into the command center and went straight to searching,” said Holden.
“The only benefit of snow is if you can see tracks. And in this situation, I don’t believe we’ll find tracks,” explained Holden.
A week in, and the effort has been laced with unforgiving temperatures no first responder can ignore.
“We’ve had some cold nights,” added Holden. “There’s a two-year-old with no shoes on and a t-shirt. Unless he fell in a deep hole the chances of finding him alive are slim.”
It’s a grim reality many are logically thinking through. But the spirit, faith and love shown in the search to find Noah is abundant. A true testament to the determination each first responder has to find and return little Noah to his family.
Chief Holden says his men will stay Wednesday night and search Thursday as well. If more help is needed, they plan to send another crew up to relieve the others.
http://whnt.com/2016/01/21/rogersville-first-responders-aid-in-search-for-noah-chamberlin/
I just read this morning about the outsider police chief commenting about Noah not having any shoes on, which is most likely a slip-of-the-tongue on his part. It sounds as if the police chief and his crew were briefed on the facts of the case and were unaware that this information had not been released publicly.
It appears as if they just arrived on scene to help search yesterday and today.
Where his shoes were found could have a HUGE impact on this search effort. If they found his shoes on the outer perimeter of the search zone, or outside of the search zone, then this would indicate that he went a lot further out in the woods than LE initially thought. I'm pretty sure he would have started out with shoes on, the big question is where did he take them off and how far was it from where he was last seen ?
I suspect he would have taken his shoes off after they got soaking wet, which would have been sometime early Friday morning when the rains went through that area. The shoes may have become uncomfortable to walk in or
they were hurting his feet. They may have been hurting his feet because he had walked so damn far, just like what happens to adults when they are walking on uneven trails for great distances.
Finding the shoes would be a huge kickstart in the search for him, because it would be the equivalent of having a new starting point. Forget about where he was last seen, the shoes would be a sure indicator that at one point or another Noah was standing right where they found them.
Of course on the downside of this, if they found his shoes a few hundred yards away from where he was last seen, then it hasn't made much of a difference due to hundreds of searchers scouring that area and finding nothing else.
Hopefully the media will pressure them for more information now and get them to divulge
when and where his shoes were found, and at what point in the search timeline. If this statement was a mistaken assumption on the part of the police chief, then that too should be clarified by LE.
