{"id":6484,"date":"2011-09-24T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T22:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2011-09-24T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T01:12:13","slug":"framingham-fire-and-police-search-river-for-missing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/09\/24\/general-interest\/framingham-fire-and-police-search-river-for-missing-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Framingham Fire and Police Search River for Missing Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Framingham Police Sgt. Michael Loughman secures scene as Fire Fighters from Framingham Station 2, Engine 2 prepare launch for missing person water search on Centennial Place. (September 24, 2011)<\/p><\/div>\n

FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - At approximately 2:45p.m., Saturday September 24, 2011, members of the Framingham Fire Department, from Engine Company 2, Station 2, (the Watson St. Fire Station)<\/em>, along with Framingham Police search and rescue began a search of the Sudbury River, reportedly looking for Susan Bamvakis, a 50 year old woman had gone missing earlier this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On Friday, Framingham Police issued a \"Reverse 911\" call to area residents asking that they notify police if they spotted Bamvakis who suffers from bi-polar disorder and can not take care of herself.<\/p>\n

The call informed residents that Bamvakis was last seen wearing a brightly colored shirt, black stretch pants and black shoes near her McAdams Road home.<\/p>\n

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Framingham Fire and Police personel ready to put in search craft at canoe portage area off Central Street above the Great Falls at Saxonville. (September 24, 2011)<\/p><\/div>\n

According to one of the residents of Centennial Place, Framingham Fire and Police were searching the area as they beleived a cell phone found near a bend in the river on Central St. across from Johnson St. may have belonged to Bamvakis.<\/p>\n

Residents of the Centennial Street neighborhood feared Bamvakis may have wandered down a path used as a portage for canoeists to navigate around the shallow, but swift moving part of the river that leads to the reservoir above the falls.<\/p>\n

Ms. Bamvakis is 5' 2\"\u00a0 tall, weighs approximately 115 lbs., and has brown hair and hazel eyes.<\/p>\n

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Framingham Police Officers Chris Langmeyer on a search and rescue dive mission searching for missing woman in Sudbury River, September 24, 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n

(Photo courtesy of Wayne Dion, www.dion.com<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

At the time of this writing, Bamvakis had not yet been found.\u00a0 Framingham Police ask that anyone with information as to Bamvakis' whereabouts call the non-emergency police line at:\u00a0 (508) 872-1212.<\/p>\n

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FRAMINGHAM, MA – At approximately 2:45p.m., Saturday September 24, 2011, members of the Framingham Fire Department, from Engine Company 2, Station 2, (the Watson St. Fire Station), along with Framingham Police search and rescue began a search of the Sudbury River, reportedly looking for Susan Bamvakis, a 50 year old woman had gone missing earlier this week…. [read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":6489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[2368,2927,2925,2923,2920,1401,535,2924,2926,2919,326,2922,2921,522,2928,2918,2929],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-canoe-drop","tag-canoe-landing","tag-centennial-place","tag-central-street","tag-engine-company-2","tag-framingham-fire-department","tag-framingham-police","tag-great-falls-at-saxonville","tag-johnson-street","tag-michael-loughman","tag-saxonville","tag-search-and-rescue-team","tag-station-2","tag-sudbury-river","tag-sudbury-river-portage","tag-susan-bamvakis","tag-watson-street-fire-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}