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Water rescue team being dispatched to Wortendyke Road area

By Howard B. Owens

A water rescue search is being set up in the area of Wortendyke and South Main Street roads.

East Pembroke's water rescue team responding along with Town of Batavia.

A command post is being set up in the area of Pudgie's Home and Garden Center on West Main Street.

UPDATE 8:31 p.m.: A K-9 unit has tracked a path that indicates a woman may be in the water. Alden's water team also requested to stage in the area. "The water is moving pretty fast," a chief says.

UPDATE 9:09 p.m.: Corfu Fire Department is called to East Pembroke's hall to provide light towers where they are needed. The searchers are sweeping both sides of the Tonawanda Creek. They are headed west of the retention pond. A thermal imaging camera is requested to be at the ready roadside, south of Route 5. The woman they are searching for is said to be blonde, wearing a green jacket and carrying a backpack. They heard a female is screaming loudly near a storage unit, and thought it might be related to this call. The situation first came to the authorities' attention when a medic alerted dispatch that a woman, who appeared to be intoxicated, was lying on the ground near Pudgie's Lawn & Garden Center. She seemed to have an injured leg and was last seen headed toward the creek. Deputies who responded found a woman's shoe(s) roadside, and the K-9 "scented toward the creek." Now they are saying the screaming woman is someone in a trailer park close by yelling for her dog. "We don't have to look out for a pooch, too, do we?" "No" came the reply. A deputy says there's "a good deal of K-9 activity in the (Dreamland trailer) park, which is an indication that she may have been here and is now out of here."

UPDATE 9:17 p.m.: They found a shoeless woman at the Dreamland Trailer Park, lot # 8. Everybody is packing up and will be leaving shortly. An ambulance will be responding to her location.

UPDATE 9:35 p.m.: The patient refused treatment. She is now in law enforcement custody.

Sam Tambe Jr.

Nothing says Redneck more than a drunken shoeless woman in a trailer park yelling and screaming!! lol! Please tell me her name isn't Flo?!

Dec 21, 2011, 9:26pm Permalink
Eric [Rick] von kramer

Drunken Rednecks, Can and Do, also live in some of our upscale neighborhoods.The Difference is, They drink martinis instead of bud light and use prescription drugs[ and maybe have more of their own teeth].Also incase you didn't notice she lived on Elm street, last i knew it was in the city

Dec 22, 2011, 9:12am Permalink

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