Waukesha Police Thank Community for Help Finding Missing Boy

In a press release, the Waukesha Police Captain, Dan Baumann, said, "we can not thank the community enough for all their efforts in cooperation with the Public Safety Professionals. We had families working together, people dropping off boots and supplies for those who showed up in flip flops and shorts.  We had parents with their babies in carriers wanting to help. I could go on and on about how great of support we received. As we all move forward in our lives and get back to our day to day tasks I know we all can look back on this incident and truly see how the kindness of the human heart can bring people together."

In a joint release from the Ounkham Family and the Waukesha Police and Fire Department they expressed their thanks to all of the volunteers. The gratitude also extended to local media and social media for spreading the word and keeping the public updated on the developments in the search.

The search area covered approximately three square miles of corn fields, streams, and thick wooded areas with little or no roads. Because of this difficult terrain specialized search teams were requested and others simply responded to the area to help search for Andrew. The Waukesha West High School provided the volunteer staging area and the Waukesha Park and Recreation Department provided the park shelter as a safe place to run the command post.

Here is a full list of the two dozen emergency agencies that helped in the search:

Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department
Southeast Wisconsin Incident Management Team
Wisconsin State Patrol
Racine County Sheriff’s Department
Town of Waukesha Fire Department
Milwaukee Police Department K-9 Unit
Glendale Police Department
New Berlin Police Department
New Berlin Fire Department
Menomonee Falls Police Department
Wauwatosa Police Department
Ozaukee County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit
Pewaukee Fire Department
Sussex Fire Department
Village of Stone Bank Fire Department
Town of Brookfield Fire Department
Oconomowoc Fire Department
Town of Vernon Fire Department
Town of Big Bend Fire Department
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Wisconsin K-9 SOS
Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol- Fixed Wing Aircraft
Wisconsin National Guard- West Bend Air Support Unit - Blackhawk Helicopter
Washington County Sheriff’s Department
Whitewater Area Mounted Search Team and Rescue (WAMSTAR)
Salvation Army Disaster Response Services
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)