NJSAR Recent Searches July 13, 2008 On July 13 at 0018 Bergen County Police Dispatch paged Chief Higgins for a missing 90 year old woman in Ocean Township in Monmouth County. NJSAR oly has one member in Monmouth County. The Chief paged her and she called back but advised she was out of the area. The Chief the contacted New Jersey Rescue and Recovery K9 www.njrescue-recoveryk9.org and Central Jersey Tecnical Search and Rescue www.cjtrt.org Chief Higgins then called Ocean Township Police to advise of who would be responding. The advised the woman had returned home and was OK. The 2 mutual aid teams were notified of the cancellation of the search. All the Search and Rescue Teams in NJ (and a few from NY and PA) belong to the Search and Rescue Council of New Jersey. www.sarcnj.org June 25, 2008 NJSAR was requested to assist in search in South Plainfield NJ for an 87 yr. old woman with dementia. She was located alive and well about a half mile from her home in a wooded area behind an industrial complex, while NJSAR resources were still in route. June 12-13, 2008 NJSAR was requested by NJ State Park Police to search for a woman with dementia in Stokes State Forest in Sussex County NJ on the morning of Thursday June 12. About 15 members responded that day and about the same the following day. The woman was located alive and well early Friday afternoon by a bloodhound that had been given clothes the woman had worn. The bloodhound handler was a detective from the Hopatcong NJ police department. She was almost 3 miles from where her car was found. Other agencies participating included New Jersey Initial Response Team www.njirt.org, New York Search and Rescue www.newyorksearchandrescue.org and Ramapo Rescue Dogs www.ramaporescuedog.org and the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) from Hopatcong Borough, New Jersey Forest Fire Service (a part of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection) and the Sussex County Sheriff's Office. May, 25 2008 Rescuers found a 3-year-old boy unharmed who went missing Saturday from a campground. Reports indicated Daniel Niktalov was fine after his ordeal, which started before 2 p.m. Saturday when his family, from Queens, reported him missing. The family was staying at the Swinging Bridge Campground on Lakeshore Drive. The boy was discovered at about 11:30 a.m. Sunday morning less than a mile from the campground, according to reports. Sullivan County Undersheriff Eric Chaboty says the boy was found in the woods, tucked in a rocky outcrop. His had a small bump on his head and was slightly dehydrated. Dozens of police, firefighters and volunteers scoured Swinging Bridge Reservoir and the surrounding woods Saturday, looking for the boy. The search was called off just after 8 p.m. Saturday on account of darkness. The search resumed Sunday morning. Niktalov was taken to Catskill Regional Medical Center as a precaution. February 13, 2008 Members of NJSAR's K9 team were called in on a Missing Person search located in North Plainfield, NJ at the request of Central Jersey Technical Rescue to assist No. Plainfield PD in a search for a missing No. Plainfield woman. Other teams responding were West Jersey K9 and MARSAR as well as members from the No. Plainfield FD and Police Detectives, NJ State Police Missing Persons was also involved. All teams endured a day of pouring rain, wet snow and searched an area in excess of 50 acres near and around the subject's home. The search turned up no clues and she remains missing. For more information about this person go to: www.judyengelmann.com January 7, 2008 NJSAR was requested at 1730 to standby for an ongoing search in Mahwah, New Jersey, for two adults and four juveniles who got lost while hiking that afternoon. We were advised at that time that local law enforcement was in cell phone contact with the group. NJSAR was advised at 1830 that the group had been located. More Searches 2007 Searches 2006 Searches 2005 Searches 2004 Searches 2003 Searches 2002 Searches 2001 Searches 2000 Searches 1999 Searches Back to Home Page