Search missions assigned. First-responders gather to be assigned quadrants. Image: Buffalo County sheriff
Man located near Chippewa delta rail line
NELSON, Wis. – A 74-year-old hunter missing overnight in the Chippewas River delta was found all right in a massive search involving 125 volunteers from several counties. He had become lost. The man was taken out of the delta by an all-terrain emergency vehicle and transported to the Durand hospital to be checked over. The hunter had failed to show at an agreed-upon meeting place about 5 p.m. The initial search included a police hound and an aerial drone. By dawn Buffalo County Sheriff Michael Osmond had called in dozens of first-responders to scour the thick bottom-lands forest of the 13,000-acre Tiffany Wildlife Preserve along the Chippewa River from Durand down to the Mississippi. The State Patrol flew sorties. Game wardens used an airboat through backwaters and sloughs. The man was found near the Burlington Northern railroad right-of-way about 10:45 a.m. Overnight temperatures had been in the lower 60s.