Through some investigation we
were able to get ahold of some
of this young man's friends,
and apparently he had made a
plan to run away and the friends
had provided him with some food
and orange and banana Apple.
That type of stuff we were able to
locate the peels and a pump house.
Some of these food items were
still searching the area.
We've had Guardian one up last
night for quite a few hours with
their forward looking infrared.
We've had search dogs searching the
area or asking the neighbors to make
sure they keep an eye out for this young man.
And we're just continuing
with the search now,
as it daylight comes,
it's going to be easier
to do our ground search,
so we're going to be bringing more assets.
We're going to be trying to get
also more air support to fly over,
but it's pretty thick Woods,
so it's going to probably be ground
searchers that are going to help
us out with the temperatures.
That's a real concern for us.
He had a coat,
but he wasn't well supplied for
this type of thing. At this point.
I'm hoping he went to another friends house.
Maybe spent the night stay warm,
I don't know,
but we're in contact with the
school district.
We know we're talking with the
Superintendent and his teachers
in that type of stuff as well.
Is
the fruit that you found
is that near where we are
right now? Yeah, not too far from here.
We found a banana peel orange peels,
which his friends who we've interviewed
said that they had given him is
still your belief that he's hunkered down
somewhere in a structure we don't know.
We don't know. We did a search
with the dogs and everything else.
We haven't been able to get a good sent to
where the dogs were doing an active search.
But we did find where he was in a pump house,
but we don't know at this point
what appears in being gone overnight
like this when it's in the 20s and
you're not amply supplied, you know.
He's not a very big kid.
From what we understand,
and it could be that that hypothermia
sets in and that's our concerns.
We need to find him if he's
exposed to the cold all night.
How many
searchers on the way we're hearing you
guys could have upwards of 70 coming out
here? Yeah, we have quite a few counties
that have sent resources throughout the
night from dogs to ground searchers.
And as the day breaks will have more ground
searchers from different locations and we,
will you guys be bringing the
helicopter out once again as well?
We've asked for more air support,
yes, but it's pretty dense Woods,
so it's kind of hard.
It's not like a big area
where the helicopter can see.
If he's down underneath the tree or
something, but what changes with daylight?
As far as how you how you
went about your search,
it just makes it a little easier to
see as we're searching the searchers,
all carry GPS is and we grid map every
step that they take so that we know
where every searcher has searched an
we assign different areas of searching,
so it's a pretty precise thing when you
do a search and rescue is he since he
you know now that he is run away.
Is there concern that he's trying to
keep from being spotted or found? We
don't know. You know it's a 10 year old.
We don't know what was going
on in his head right now,
So what difficulties did they face?
Searching overnight we heard
something about the terrain
being kind of difficult, right?
Yeah, we have quite a bit of contour drop in
some of the ravines that we have out here.
'cause it goes up here from this Hill,
right down to the Hood Canal.
So you've got quite a few feet of
elevation that drops and you got ravines
and you got down trees and thick brush.
And all of those type of concerns.
We know the area pretty well.
I am not sure on that.
I don't know how long he's lived here.
It sounds like they had some forts and some
play areas and we searched all of those,
but I don't know how far he's
extended away from home.
What's the radius you think he's
within a few miles?
You know, there's there's some data
that gives us information that different
ages and different terrain features,
how far they can be an our search and
rescue guys are considering all of that.
Anything? We have an asset that
you think is important to add.
Not at this point.
We're just preparing for an
extended search until we find him.
You know, we're going to continue
using as much resources as we can
from neighboring counties to see if
we can get this young man secure.
Keep an eye out.
One of the things my Detective
Sergeant told the neighbors last
night and that's one thing that
is a concern is last night.
A lot of the locals were trying to
get out into the search and rescue.
Some of them were carrying handguns.
That type of stuff and it just
makes for a real tense situation
because we don't know who they are.
Our search and rescues are doing
a very specific grid search.
So what are Detective Sergeant
told the locals work.
Your best thing to do is drive slowly
on the roadways to help us as opposed
to getting out into the Woods.
And then you get hurt.
Now are searching and trying
to rescue you as well,
where each one of our search and
rescue coordinators has a GPS
tracking of all of our searchers.
So it's a pretty precise thing.
Is it more difficult
to pick up the scent as well if
there's people wander around the Woods?
Absolutely it. It takes away the ability
of the dogs to pick up the person sent.
Target that is going to have checked
out exactly. There's a lot of things,
and we've gotten a couple of calls over the
night of people saying they thought they
heard a kid yelling and that type stuff.
So we followed up on all those leads,
but they haven't.
Haven't found him because of
the number of people who have.
I can get the exact number.
I don't know right now.
I know it's one team was back in their
car 'cause they were searching all night.
They were sleeping in their cars
and then they were going to get back
up this morning and start search
and these people are fantastic.
They get out here and drop of a hat
and do searches all night long and
terrible conditions and it's just
wonderful to see people do that.
We heard one of the searchers may
have been injured in the ravine area.
The common that that type of thing happens.
I haven't heard specifics on that,
but you know it in the dark with all
of the obstacles you twist an ankle or
sprain a knee or something like that.
But I don't know the details and there's
nothing to lead you to believe
somebody picked this boy up, not
in the area, not at this time.
Have nothing to believe that.