Herrington Lake Volunteer Search & Rescue

Late last year you may recall we had a search and rescue of a local young man who had taken off near dark on his JetSki and hadn’t made it home. It all turned out fine, especially because we had such an amazing community show up and support the local law enforcement. After that - it seemed like maybe we should more formally prepare ourselves for something like this. Social media helped, but we realized we need to be better organized and capable so we can coordinate effectively and not miss anything.

Turns out we have the perfect person to assist with this in every way. Patti Carter Bishop has extensive experience with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, who help provide some of the very best training out there to local law enforcement. Patti would be the first to tell you that it’s not a matter of IF someone goes missing, it’s just a matter of WHEN. So, we are going to be putting together a volunteer SAR program for our lake community, so that we can easily and quickly step into action to assist law enforcement.

Patti and I are tagging local law enforcement to see if everyone’s up to date on their S&R training - NCMEC has donations and grants that help cover these trainings for our local folks, which is very awesome. And, even though it may be child-specific, it easily carries over to adults. They will work to get them the training needed and then from there we will coordinate training of our volunteer community. While we work that angle we want to get the volunteer program started and we have some detailed questions we'd like to get your responses to. 

Please note that these are all confidential and won't be shared publicly in ANY way. This background info will be used to help us "map out" all of our community resources, so we can leverage all of ourselves in the best way possible in the event of an emergency. We will have at least one additional "paperwork" step that includes a legal waiver and we are working on that soon. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to either of us!

Patti Carter Bishop

(765) 404-2101

PCB19561994@gmail.com

Bobby Childers

(859) 379-9870

bobby@HerringtonLakeKY.com

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