Drone helps Olmsted Township police find missing elderly man who fell during walk

Описание: Police in Olmsted Township used a piece of technology to locate a man who had gone missing on a routine walk through his neighborhood on Saturday. By using a drone, police were able to spot the man, who had fallen in a hard to access area and couldn’t get up.

On Saturday, 75-year-old Roger Lipstreu went for a stroll before dinner. However, what started as a walk around the block turned into a search mission when he entered an unpaved area among trees, a spot typically used by his community to dispose of branches and leaves.

As he was walking on the uneven terrain, Lipstreu fell, and couldn’t get back up.

“I couldn’t go any further, and I fell backwards,” he said. “I didn’t realize how long I’d been there.”

It turns out, Lipstreu had been gone for about two hours, prompting his wife to call 911. Alongside neighbors, police searched on foot around his neighborhood, but didn’t have any luck finding him.

According to Officer Ryan Hare, a police officer even walked by the area Lipstreu had fallen, but due to the thick brush and branches, the officer didn’t spot him behind a pile of tree trunks and other shrubs.

That’s when Hare, a trained drone pilot with the police department, flew their drone, using its camera to scan the ground from a different vantage point, hoping to spot the missing man.

Isabel Lawrence reports: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/loc... --

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