Company B of the Central Region PERT was activated on Friday, July 15, to assist the Halifax County Sheriff's Department in the search for a missing 3-year-old girl.
The mutual aid request was to help in the search for the girl with special needs who had walked away from her home in Halifax sometime Friday morning. Rescuers were worried that the girl may have wandered near the Roanoke River, only about 200 yards away.
PERT members from Caledonia and Nash arrived first and, along with deputies, were able to locate the missing child sitting along the bank of the river unharmed around 1:55 p.m. Other PERT members were en route when they were notified of the rescue.
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