Mail carrier rescues child wandering in frigid weather
Published: January 26, 2007
Conrad Vallee figured the crying must be coming from inside a house — just a normal neighbourhood noise. When the Canada Post carrier realized where the sound was really coming from, he ran.
Sitting in the snow, in an open field, was a child, wearing nothing more than a T-shirt, light pants and socks. The temperature was -14C.
Mr. Vallee, who was completing his delivery route on Sawmill Private near the Airport Parkway and Heron Road at about 10 a.m. Wednesday, bundled the boy, who did not respond to questions, into his winter jacket. The mailman followed a pair of tiny footprints in the snow to find out where the boy had come from.
He traced the route back 20 metres, through a snow-covered football field, through the gate of a chain link fence and 75 metres across a parking lot. There, he found a private day-care centre and school, and the child’s panicking mother, who was searching for her son with school staff.
The boy, who is believed to be between three and four years old, had made his way out the back door of the private day care, located in a former school building on Brookfield Road, that he was visiting with his mother.
The child “seemed OK, but you never know. He was frozen because he’d been walking in the snow with no shoes. It was a cold day. And he was shivering less and his cry had been getting weaker as I held him,” said Mr. Vallee.
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