10-year-old boy missing in Utah forest found alive (UPDATED)

[Omaha Steve]

Last edited Mon Aug 24, 2015, 10:06 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: AP

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 10-year-old boy who disappeared while hiking with family in eastern Utah has been found alive more than 24 hours after he got lost while looking for mushrooms near a remote mountain lake, authorities said Monday.

Malachi Bradley survived by curling up between some rocks as temperatures as dipped into the upper 30s overnight, Uintah County Sheriff Vance Norton said. The boy wrapped his T-shirt around his legs and huddled in his jacket to keep warm in the remote area near the Wyoming border.

Malachi was spotted by a rescue plane Monday afternoon and picked up by a police helicopter, Norton said. He was cold and hungry but otherwise healthy.

"He's actually in great shape," said Norton, but the weather is expected to be worse on Monday night. "We're just happy we got him when we did."

FULL story at link. Original story below.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Rescue crews are searching for a 10-year-old boy who went missing Sunday after he left a remote mountain lake to look for mushrooms while hiking with his family in eastern Utah.

Authorities say rescuers are searching for any sign of motion in the rocky terrain where Malachi Bradley disappeared about 24 hours ago.

Uintah County Sheriff Vance Norton says an airplane and a helicopter have joined about 80 searchers on the ground. They are also calling for the boy over a speaker system.

Authorities say the boy had a coat and a backpack with him. But they're concerned a sudden rain or dip in temperatures could raise the danger of hypothermia in the high-elevation area about 200 miles east of Salt Lake City, near the Wyoming border.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/658afd8f142144ba8b20623a11fa078c/rescue-crews-search-10-year-old-boy-utah-forest

[shenmue]

1. ...

[2naSalit]

2. Lately I've been seeing

more kids with walkie-talkies to keep in touch with parents... a really good idea in such cases.

Hope they find him in relatively good condition.

What a horrible feeling to not be able to find one's child in the woods... and a horrible trauma for the child.

[Ex Lurker]

3. May not work so well in mountainous terrain

since walkie talkies are line of sight devices.

[2naSalit]

4. True that...

When I go out "shrooming" with my friends, we follow bear country protocols, the primary one being that we make noise and call back to one another regularly to keep close proximity so as to not get lost or separated and keep wildlife, like bears, at a distance.

[murielm99]

5. Oh, I hope they find him

before it gets much later.

[passiveporcupine]

6. The boy has been found, in good shape.

[secondwind]

9. great news

[Exultant Democracy]

7. I was a terror when I was in kindergarten, always walking off into the woods

we lived next to a big forested state park and I thought it was all my backyard. They stopped calling the cops after the second time I disappeared for the day.

I still sort of remember one time, I was just following some animal tracks I had found and climbing some rocks when I noticed the helicopters flying back and forth. I didn't once think that they were looking for me because it never occurred to me that I was lost, considering I knew exactly where I was.

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. Malachi...

May the angels lead you to the safety of your family.