JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST — Base police are searching for a 13-year-old girl reported missing earlier this afternoon, officials said.

The girl, who has green eyes, brown hair and is 5-feet-4-inches tall, was last seen getting off her school bus on Ash Street at 3 p.m. Joint Base spokeswoman Angel Lopez said.

The girl lives on the base, Lopez said.

Joint Base police are searching for her, and an alert have been broadcast using a base-wide intercom system known as the "giant voice," Facebook and other social media, Lopez said.

"We are using everything we can to get the word out so that we can help find the child," she said.