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Thread ID: 18754 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2005-06-22
2005-06-22 06:20 | User Profile
Missing Scout In Good Condition
An 11-year-old boy who vanished from a Boy Scout camp has been found alive after an intensive four-day search.
Brennan Hawkins was found just before noon near Lily Lake, about five miles northeast of the camp in the Uinta Mountains where he was last seen Friday, said Kay Godfrey, director of public relations for the Great Salt Lake Council.
"He has been found, he is alive, and he's in pretty good shape for an 11-year-old boy," said Godfrey, who called the rescue "a modern-day miracle."
Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds said the boy was "a little dehydrated, a little weak," but was overall in "unbelievable condition."
He was reunited with his parents and their four other children and taken to a hospital.
After downing bottles of water and eating all the granola bars carried by a group of volunteer searchers, the boy asked to play a video game on one rescuer's cell phone, the sheriff said.
The boy carried no food or water, and his family had said he did not have a good sense of direction. But the sheriff said the nights had been warm, with temperatures falling only into the 50s. The area is about 100 miles northeast of Salt Lake City.
Rescuers had feared that he could have fallen in a river that was swollen by heavy snow melt. The East Fork of the Bear River is within 100 yards of the road where the boy was believed to have been walking.
Edmunds said the boy was found not far off the trail, and he had never crossed the river.
It was not immediately clear how he survived or whether he tried to find his way back to camp. "He was in no mood to give us some details," the sheriff said. "He just wanted to eat and see his Mom."
The boy and his family rode in an ambulance together to a Salt Lake City hospital. "He laughed on the way here, just like he always has," said his mother, Jody Hawkins.
"People say that the heavens are closed and God no longer answers prayers. We are here to unequivocally tell you that the heavens are not closed, prayers are answered and children come home," she told reporters as the family arrived at Primary Children's Medical Center.
[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/21/national/main703165.shtml[/url]
Blond child survives the five days in the wilderness. :cheers:
2005-06-22 07:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Blond child survives the five days in the wilderness. :cheers:[/QUOTE]
There is more good news. The reason he was in the woods was because he was in the Boy Scouts.
2005-06-22 07:19 | User Profile
It does my heart good to hear something positive for a change. God Bless that family.
2005-06-22 10:30 | User Profile
"Volunteer Forrest Nunley, a 43-year-old house painter from Salt Lake City, said he found Brennan "standing in the middle of the trail. He was all muddy and wet. The boy saw some volunteer searchers on horseback, but "he didn't want to come out. He was too scared. He was a little delirious. I sat him down and gave him a little food," Nunnley said."
[url]http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=3502622[/url]
The boy was either delirious or strangeââ¬Â¦ there is something fishy about the whole episode.
2005-06-22 21:01 | User Profile
Tell me this child does not sound like a spoiled brat...
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"The boy hadn't been able yet to communicate much about the time he was lost.
**The Hawkinses said Brennan didn't remember much and they don't plan push him to talk about his four days in the woods. "It's going to take a while to get everything out," Toby Hawkins said. "This is how he approaches all situations." **
"Part of the delay in finding Brennan was caused because he defied conventional wisdom: He went up hill instead of down.
Sheriff Dave Edmunds had said Brennan would have been more likely to head down a river valley from a 530-acre Boy Scout camp in the Uinta mountains. "Typically children walk downhill, along the least path of resistance," he said."
"However, Brennan had hiked some 600 feet higher and more than five miles into the mountains to the spot where searcher Forrest Nunley found him before noon Tuesday."
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050622/ap_on_re_us/missing_scout[/url]
2005-06-22 21:17 | User Profile
I read over at CNN, [I]The parents of 11-year-old Cub Scout Brennan Hawkins said today their son "continues to amaze us" after surviving four days alone in the Utah wilderness. They said Brennan was taught to stay on the trail if he ever got lost and also not to talk to strangers, so "when an ATV or horse came by [searching for him] he got off the trail ... when they left, he got back on the trail."[/I]
He was taught to not talk to strangers if he ever got lost? The boy was hiding from searchers?
Another one of my pet peeves is teaching children not to talk to strangers. We teach children to be antisocial when 99% of their contact with strangers is no risk to the children. And, the one stranger that is a risk isn't going to be defeated by teaching children not to talk to strangers. And, 99% of those who are a risk to children aren't going to be seen as strangers.
2005-06-22 21:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]I read over at CNN, [I]The parents of 11-year-old Cub Scout Brennan Hawkins said today their son "continues to amaze us" after surviving four days alone in the Utah wilderness. They said Brennan was taught to stay on the trail if he ever got lost and also not to talk to strangers, so "when an ATV or horse came by [searching for him] he got off the trail ... when they left, he got back on the trail."[/I]
He was taught to not talk to strangers if he ever got lost? The boy was hiding from searchers?
Another one of my pet peeves is teaching children not to talk to strangers. We teach children to be antisocial when 99% of their contact with strangers is no risk to the children. And, the one stranger that is a risk isn't going to be defeated by teaching children not to talk to strangers. And, 99% of those who are a risk to children aren't going to be seen as strangers.[/QUOTE]
The child is not a total moron... he knows when searchers are looking for him. After all, he did have boy scout training.
"After downing bottles of water and eating all the granola bars carried by a group of volunteer searchers, the boy asked to play a video game on one rescuer's cell phone, the sheriff said. "