CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Kyle Fleischmann’s family and friends joined search dogs Thursday afternoon in a wooded area just outside of uptown Charlotte to spend another day looking for the man who disappeared nearly a week ago.

The area where search dogs seemed to indicate they picked up his scent on Wednesday is about five blocks from where Fleischmann was last seen early Friday morning. The 24-year-old hasn’t been spotted since walking out of Buckhead Saloon around 2:20 a.m. that day.

Family and friends have been scouring uptown for three days. Now they are focusing on the spot off 12th and College streets.

More than 20 volunteers split up and began looking near train tracks, through gravel and in overgrown brush and thorns early Thursday afternoon. Every area searched got a tag -- telling other searchers it was clear.

“The important thing is we need to flag everything,” said Richard Fleischmann, Kyle’s father.

He said police are concentrating their search in uptown near the bar where Kyle was last scene. The bar’s surveillance cameras captured him leaving by himself.

Fleischmann said a dog not associated with the police department picked up his son’s scent near the Holiday Inn not far from the bar, but blocks from where Thursday’s search concentrated. He said the dog used his son’s jacket – the one he left at the bar the night he disappeared.

“There's a machine that sucks his arm pit area that has the most scent, and it’s absorbed into a bag and given to the dogs,” he explained.

Fleischmann said friends from across the country have come to help search.

George Zink came from Florida.

“My daughter found (that Kyle was missing) on the Web site Facebook. So we got in touch with Dick and said, ‘Listen, we're coming,’” Zink said.

Facebook, a popular networking site, has a "Help Find Kyle Fleischmann" page. So far over 27,000 people have logged on and left messages.

Hundreds are also expected at a prayer vigil Thursday night for Kyle on the Elon University campus.

His disappearance is also posted on the America’s Most Wanted Web site. His story will air on Saturday’s broadcast.