Fairview RCMP responded to a missing persons report on May 11 at 10:24 p.m. of a two year old who had wandered from their rural residence in Clear Hills County.
Police alerted the RCMP real time operation center and called in multiple partners and volunteers to help search.
Assisting groups included Grande Prairie police dog services, British Columbia RCMP remote piloted aircraft systems, the Worsley fire department, Grande Prairie technical search and rescue, and over 100 volunteers from the community.
They searched all through the night until Grande Prairie’s search and rescue helicopter spotted the child. They had wandered one kilometre away from home, and were found in good health.
“I would like to thank all of those who answered our call for help. Between the various RCMP units, Worsley Fire Department, Grande Prairie Technical Search & Rescue and all the volunteers, we were able to quickly cover search ground as well as have teams dedicated to other necessary search tasks. This is a fine example of partners and community coming together to achieve an important goal,” said Cst. Lucas Lehman of the Fairview RCMP detachment.
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