General News: Screams Lead Police to Search Storm King Mountain
May 23, 2007
A voice heard screaming at the foot of Storm King Mountain Tuesday night led police and fire officials to launch a fruitless search on foot and by helicopter for the source of the sound.
Cornwall-on-Hudson police chief Charles Williams says that village and town police responded to a call from an employee of Camp Olmsted who said that screams could be heard from the mountainside.
When they arrived around 8:45 p.m. the police shouted out and believed they heard a response. Williams said that after that, no more voices could be heard. “They used the car speaker, asking ‘are you ok?’ but never got another response,” he said.
The Storm King Fire Engine Company, state police and park police were called in to assist in the search. The fire department sent searchers up the Storm King trail from Mountain Road while others searched the trail near Camp Olmsted. A park ranger checked an old road where there is a seasonal residence in the park with no results, Williams said.
The state police brought in a helicopter equipped with infrared heat-seeking devices to aid in the effort and repeatedly crossed the area looking for signs of life. The sound of the helicopter swooping back and forth across the mountain could be heard throughout the village.
Chief Williams noted that there were no missing person reports filed and no one had ever seen a person on the mountain, giving police little to go on in their search for the elusive screamer.
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