SCOTTOWN – Police and firefighters were still searching this morning for a missing 11-year-old child that could have slipped into rain-swollen Indian-Guyan Creek Tuesday.

Wednesday, July 12, 2000

SCOTTOWN – Police and firefighters were still searching this morning for a missing 11-year-old child that could have slipped into rain-swollen Indian-Guyan Creek Tuesday.

Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department dispatchers said deputies, search and rescue teams from Windsor Township Volunteer Fire Department, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources are searching downstream of the old covered bridge at County Road 67 and Ohio 217.

The boy might have been playing near Indian-Guyan Creek, which is out of its banks in several locations, dispatchers said.

The sheriff’s department did not have the name of the victim. Other emergency personnel were at the scene of the search and could not be reached for comment.

Lawrence County 911/EMA director Don Mootz said his agency received the call from a Windsor Township resident at 2:50 p.m. Tuesday.

"There was a child in the water and she gave us a location by the covered bridge at Indian Guyan," Mootz said.

Dispatchers alerted Windsor firefighters, then began alerting other emergency agencies, he said.

"Form there, it developed into a search," Mootz said.

Windsor firefighters called for assistance from Chesapeake and Proctorville volunteer fire departments for water rescue equipment and manpower. The sheriff’s department and ODNR’s watercraft agency also responded.

There was no word this morning if the agencies had found the missing child, Mootz said.

"On Tuesday, Indian-Guyan Creek was out of its banks and running swift," he said.