Missing two-year-old found safe
Posted May 1, 2016 11:51:55 AM.
Last Updated May 1, 2016 01:04:10 PM.
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Two-year-old Issac Leuenberger has been found after his family reported him missing Saturday night.
BC mounties say little Issac disappeared about 7:00 in Premier Lake Provincial Campground, which is about 70 kilometres north of Cranbrook.
The toddler was out for a walk with his mother and two siblings when they turned around a bend and discovered he was gone.
More than 70 people, along with trained search and rescue teams, police dogs, and two helicopters converged on the area and scoured the forest all night.
Corporal Chris Newel with Kimberley RCMP says temperatures at the campground dropped to around minus two overnight.
Luckily, Newel says one of the searchers found the toddler in the woods, just off a main trail near Yankee Lake, Sunday morning.
“One of our searchers actually picked up a noise in the bushes and, at first thought, you know, is it a bird, is it a chipmunk and…there Issac was and quickly brought him back to the camp. He had some scratches on him, he’s hungry, he got cleaned up with mom and we’re just so grateful of the outcome,” says Cpl. Newel.
He says, physically, Issac suffered only a few scratches and didn’t even have to go to the hospital.