So I have a scanner at home and whenever the towns fire alarm goes off (our town still has one) I turn it on. So it goes off and they say there a missing person (don't know if they were old or young one of the two because they sent like 7 sheriff cars and a mobile command  post) they send a UTV from another town ,but A our town has one and B there's no hills or off road areas so why would they send a UTV?

Its nearly impossible to tell you why when I don't know anything about your agency or, more importantly, the call details. All the times that I have been on missing person calls with multiple units was because the person was usually pretty young and there was a natural hazard in the area (such as a lake) where the child could have possibly wandered into. In my sheriff's office if the person was under the age of 13 (Signal 8 under 13) then the call was automatically bumped to a priority 1 call and several units would respond and in some cases fire rescue would respond with us. Like I said, I don't know the call details or anything about your local agency or your area so there could be lots of reasons for why the dispatched what they did.

 

Also, UTVs are necessarily just for off-road terrain. UTVs can be very useful and searching areas where it isn't practical to drive a patrol car or just transporting people or equipment around.

Edited October 4, 201411 yr by l3ubba