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Some of the troop members had cell phones, but the cell phone service in the area is spotty. Lisa Logan, the mother of one missing Scout, said she suspected the group got off schedule and decided to camp for one more night.
The search is a precaution, said Charity Sharp, spokeswoman for the Cruso Fire Department.
"There's eight children up there, so we want to make sure everyone's OK. There's a possibility they could be hurt," she said.
Sharp said the Scouts and the three adults with them left an itinerary for the trip, but checks of the hiking route had so far turned up nothing.
Firefighters and search and rescue crew members were checking a 5-square-mile area near Black Balsam Knob in southern Haywood County, Sharp said. She said a fresh search team of 15 to 30 people with tracking dogs went out after dawn.
[Associated Press]
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(Update:
Scouts 'hunkered down' after getting lost)
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