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Three-year-old missing with dog
By Brian
Hixson
At about 8:30
pm I was pulled away from the TV by a call from
Walt Walker, stating that a young child was
missing in the Anza area. Walt picked me up
shortly after. We left Hemet and rolled through
Sage and then up to Anza, followed by John Dew
and Kevin Walker. Base camp was set up only a
mile from where we had searched for a two yr. old
earlier in the month. The Hemet team had been
called earlier but did not have any luck. We were
shown the child's footprints near the mobile home
where he was last seen with his dog in the
afternoon. A Hemet search team reported that they
felt they had found tracks. Walt assigned John
and I to go along with Kevin in his jeep, and
follow the deputy around to where the search team
was. Upon arriving at the groups location we did
some looking, and confirmed that this was the
correct print. The Hemet group continued on and
we moved around again and further North. Our plan
was to try and leap frog search to try and cut
off the child, who had already gone several miles
in a short amount of time. As was the problem
earlier in the month, temperatures were dipping into the
30's and the coyotes could be heard howling in
the distance.
After moving
around, we started searching our way up another
dirt road that would hopefully cut the young
child off. We had been searching for some time
when over the scanner we heard the sheriff s
dispatcher tell the deputy to roll to an Anza
address, that a young boy and his dog had been
found sleeping on a door-step, by the residents.
We jumped back into the jeep and followed the
deputy to the house in question, and upon going
inside we found that our three and a half year
old friend was still a bit cold but other than
that was O.K. Kevin checked him out, and after
seeing that he was in good shape, the deputy took
him back to base and his waiting parents. Once
back in his mothers arms it was apparent that
this young one would have a very Merry Christmas.
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