Missing Man Found With K9s, National Guard Helicopter, Volunteers

NEWBURY, NH - On Thursday, August 6th at 6:30 PM NH Fish and Game Conservation Officers were notified of an 81-year-old man who had gone missing from his residence on Sutton Road in Newbury. Conservation Officers along with volunteer searchers from New England K-9 and Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team responded to the area and searched through the night as temperatures dipped into the fifties. No clues or evidence of the missing man were found and at around 4:30 AM the search was suspended until daylight.

By 8:30 AM on August 7th, searchers, including Conservation Officers, Volunteers from New England K-9, Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team, local volunteers and a Blackhawk Helicopter from the Army National Guard, resumed the search of the wooded area off Sutton Road near the Sutton/Newbury town line.

Searchers faced steep rugged terrain as well as thickly vegetated swamps that hampered their movement. At 9:40 AM a searcher with New England K-9 located the missing man almost ½ mile into the woods from his residence. The man was unresponsive but alive. As rescuers warmed the man his condition improved. Eventually the man was carried to a nearby woods road to a waiting ambulance on Gillingham Drive. By 10:30 AM the man was transported by the New London Ambulance to New London Hospital for evaluation.

The man identified as, Michael Budrow, was met at the hospital by family members. The success of this search mission would not have occurred as timely if not for the efforts and dedication of the search and rescue volunteers and Conservation Officers.

Many of these searchers returned to assist in the search after only resting for a couple hours. The teamwork displayed during this search is something the citizens of New Hampshire should be proud of and is the foundation of how search and rescue works amongst the many agencies that participate in these missions in the Granite State.