{"id":381236,"date":"2026-08-26T02:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381236\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:08:27","slug":"search-for-missing-man-on-great-miami-river-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381236\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for missing man on Great Miami River suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">DAYTON \u2014 Rescue teams have suspended their search on the Great Miami River for a man who went missing on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cExtensive resources were utilized throughout the incident, including multiple boats, searches of surrounding riverbanks, spotters on area bridges, thermal imaging, SONAR technology, underwater cameras, and aerial drones,\u201d the Dayton Fire Department said in a statement on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The man has not been found. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The search started with a 911 call on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s gone under. I don\u2019t think I can go out there after him,\u201d the caller told the dispatcher. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Sunday evening, that caller watched along the river as a man struggled to stay afloat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s white, in the middle of the river,\u201d the caller said. \u201cI thought he was swimming, but I thought I heard him calling for help.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The caller couldn\u2019t hop in to save the man because of the strong current and high waters, so they described what they saw. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cIt looks like something that\u2019s just a couple of inches in size, and I can\u2019t tell if that\u2019s part of him or if that was something else,\u201d the caller said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Rescue efforts started just after 4 p.m. on Sunday. Around 6 p.m., it turned into a recovery mission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">They had to suspend operations when it got dark, but returned around 8 a.m. on Monday to continue their search. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Crews then returned Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">We will continue to follow this story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON \u2014 Rescue teams have suspended their search on the Great Miami River for a man who went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41280,152545,152549,152542,60987,35478,133815,128259,152548,152547,64266,128253,123,125,124,110433,115,88230,82491,17691,13134,152543,152546,152544,128257,1045],"class_list":["post-381236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-amber","tag-amber_jenkins","tag-butler_county_task_force_one","tag-caillo_boulevard","tag-cruz","tag-dayton","tag-dayton_fire_department","tag-dayton_police","tag-equusearch","tag-five_rivers_metro_parks","tag-great","tag-great_miami_river","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami_river","tag-news","tag-news_center","tag-news_center_7","tag-news_center_seven","tag-nick","tag-nick_foley","tag-odnr","tag-ryan_mirando","tag-sky_7","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}