After the initial search is conducted, how should a search for a missing child be conducted in a residential area?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Teams should be instructed to start their search of a residential area from the end of the block nearest the scene and work outward. Two persons should search the area on one side of the street while the other two should check the opposite side. They should inspect side and back yards, vacant lots, alleys, sheds and outbuildings, containers, garages, abandoned refrigerators and freezers and those in use outdoors, large boxes, chests, and every other conceivable place of concealment or hazard. The more attractive hazards, such as swimming pools, excavations, ditches, wells, cisterns, creeks, storm drains, lumber piles, and unsealed boxcars, should receive first attention. Children have been found in these places after they have fallen in or entered and been unable to get out. Residents of houses in the search area, especially children, should be questioned for information when they are first contacted regarding the search. When the assigned area has been carefully checked, members of the team should meet at the end of the block to compare notes on their findings. Additionally, they should transmit their findings to the command post. They should then move on and search the next block assigned.