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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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