A massive search effort has been underway for a missing Kentucky toddler. Authorities say 3-year-old Carter Nall disappeared Sunday afternoon near a sandbar on the Ohio river in Caseyville, Kentucky, a small town near Sturgis. Nearly 100 emergency workers and volunteers continued to search for him on Monday.
Friends of Carter’s family tell News 3 the boy and his parents were in town visiting his grandmother. They were out by the river when the 3-year-old went missing.
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Rescue scenes like the one playing out in Union County Kentucky don’t usually happen. But after Nall disappeared along the shore of the Ohio River, nothing is stopping these residents from finding the toddler, come hell or high water. And there’s a lot of both.
“Pretty treacherous right now. The water level is up, the current is right at four miles an hour, which is extremely fast for a river current,” says Sergeant Scott McIntosh with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. ”
McIntosh says at least 100 volunteers and rescue personnel have come to help find Carter, braving hours of intense humidity during land searches and dangerous river conditions.
“We just got back from a trip upstream and there’s a lot of debris in the water, makes it really hard for them to use the side-scan sonar equipment,” McIntosh explains. “And of course with divers in the water, it makes it, most of the time, nearly impossible for them to do anything.”
For these communities close to the river bottoms, this rescue effort has turned personal, whether they know the family or not. And those who can’t actively participate in the search are helping in other ways. The small Dekoven Community Center has become home base for an outpouring of love.
“This morning we were running short, so we made a run to the store and then we put it out that we needed food and it started coming in and has not stopped,” explains Dekoven resident Judy Trainer.
She says the small towns in the areas have shown overwhelming support during the search. And while they may have enough food, Trainer says there’s something else that Carter and his family could use.
“If you’re sitting at home and you think can’t help, you’re sick or whatever, those prayers. And thats the main thing that keeps it going is the prayers.”
There are search and rescue teams working on both sides of the river. Because of the strong river currents, Pope and Hardin County authorities are also searching their riverbanks for any signs of Carter.
