9:20 p.m. Search called off for the night
Jeff Johnston, a district fire chief with the London fire department, says firefighters are ending the search for the missing girl.
“People want to keep searching but they just can’t because it’s dark,” he said in an interview in an area near the Windermere soccer fields on Windermere Drive east of Adelaide street.
Several fire trucks and an ambulance were still at the staging area for the search that extended as far south as Kipps Lane, but firefighters and paramedics were packing up to head home after an exhausting search while they battled hot, humid conditions and a stronger than normal flow in the Thames River for this time of year.
The search will resume Friday morning when the water level will be lower, Johnston said.
Source: https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/frantic-search-continues-in-london-for-child-in-thames-river
At approximately 3 p.m. this afternoon members of the London Police Service responded to reports of a missing child last seen in the river in the area of Adelaide Street North and Kipps Lane.
Police along with members of the London Fire Department and other emergency services are on scene and a search is underway.
Police are asking the public to avoid the area and are reminded that the river is high and moving quickly and to allow emergency personnel with the appropriate safety gear to conduct the search.
More information will be provided as appropriate.
Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to call the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Information can also be sent in online anonymously to London Middlesex Crime Stoppers.
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