Emergency personnel dispatched to cave rescue

Sparta-White County Rescue Squad, White County Emergency Medical Service, volunteer fire departments, and other emergency services personnel were dispatched at approximately 10:52 a.m., May 3, 2025, to the scene of a cave rescue off of Coal Bank Road. According to E-911, a subject contacted the emergency communications personnel and stated it had taken him 90 minutes to exit the cave area to get to the intersection of the roads where he will meet emergency personnel. The subject advised there is a 24-year-old male in the cave who is "ill and unable to walk."