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- From: RVASSER@aol.com
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- Subject: [MSAR] Boy Missing for 2 Days Found Alive
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 23:02:33 EDT
MSAR Group, This is what we do and this why we will train to be ready for service. Boy Missing for 2 Days Found Alive ARCADIA, Mo. (May
7) - Thirsty, dirty and tired after spending two days and nights barely clothed
in the wet, chilly woods of Mark Twain National Forest, 3-year-old Joshua
Childers was ready to go home. The boy was lying on
the ground of a hollow near a creek bottom Wednesday afternoon when a volunteer
searcher spied his bare bottom. "Hey, bud!" called out Donnie Halpin, a
57-year-old construction worker from nearby Fredericktown, who wasn't sure
whether the grimy figure was even alive. Somewhere along the way he lost his pull-up diaper and one of his
sneakers, which searchers found near a pond Monday. Joshua had slipped out of his family's mobile
home near Arcadia in rural southeast Missouri around 11:30 a.m. Monday, while
his father slept and his mother talked on the phone. Madison County
Sheriff David Lewis said searchers had been growing increasingly
pessimistic about their chances of finding Joshua alive. He figured three days
was about the limit for the boy's survival in the wild without food and
water. Hundreds of volunteers from as far away as St. Louis, 100 miles to the northeast, came to help in the search. So did professional search and rescue crews from dozens of agencies. The Missouri State Highway Patrol brought in planes. The state Water Patrol brought in divers and sonar. Dozens of dogs, horses, ATVs and even donkeys scattered in the miles around the tiny home that sits along the wild, rocky terrain of the Mark Twain National Forest. Lt. Ron Vasser Melrose Park Mounted Search & Rescue Melrose Park IL. |
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[MSAR] Boy Missing for 2 Days Found Alive,
RVASSER, 05/07/2009
- Re: [MSAR] Boy Missing for 2 Days Found Alive, T'mi Fi, 05/08/2009
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Re: [MSAR] Boy Missing for 2 Days Found Alive,
no name name none, 05/08/2009
- Re: [MSAR] Boy Missing for 2 Days Found Alive, Paul Fleming, 05/08/2009
- Re: [MSAR] Boy Missing for 2 Days Found Alive, IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 05/08/2009
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