Searchers locate two-year-old boy lost for hours in Nova Scotia woods
Published: April 6, 2007
Search and rescue teams have found a lost 2½-year-old boy who wandered into the woods behind his home in eastern Nova Scotia on Monday afternoon.
Const. Joe Taplin of the RCMP says searchers found the small child in a boggy area about 1.6 kilometres from his home near Moser River, about 100 kilometres east of Halifax. Taplin says doctors have examined the boy and he has been reunited with his family.
The boy walked into the forest behind his parent’s home on Highway 7 at about 2 p.m. and was located as dusk was setting in at about 7:10 p.m.
Taplin says that police dogs had “picked up a scent” of the boy and were close to him when a Department of Natural Resources helicopter managed to sight him from the air.
“Afterwards, the boy was treated by emergency health services. He was visibly shook up, but he was reunited with his family,” said Taplin.
“It was very traumatic to the family . . . They were very happy to be back with the boy.”
Police did not release the boy’s name.
Searchers were anxious to find the child before dusk fell and temperatures started to fall.
A special RCMP helicopter with heat-sensing capabilities had been called to the area from Moncton, N.B., just in case.
Taplin said it was surprising how far the little boy, described as being 2½-feet tall, travelled during the five hours he was missing.
“He got in the woods and got disoriented and started walking deeper into the woods,” said the constable.
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