Missing 2-Year-Old Girl Found Safe By New England K-9 Search Team After 4.5 Hour Search By Over 90 People

DORCHESTER, NH — A missing two-year-old child was found safe by a K-9 search team after a 4.5-hour search in Dorchester.

Just after 4 p.m. Friday, the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department, along with the New Hampshire State Police, received a report of a missing two-year-old child in Dorchester. At the time of the call, the child had been missing for over 45 minutes. A large emergency response was dispatched to the area where the child went missing due to the child’s age and the dropping temperatures.

Conservation Officers, State Troopers, New England K9, Upper Valley Search and Rescue Team, PEMI Valley Search and Rescue Team, Canaan Fire Department, Rumney Fire Department, and Grafton Fire Departments responded to the area.

Along with all the teams’ canines, drones, and a State Police Helicopter were utilized. Search teams were deployed in the wooded area where the child was last seen.

Drones were utilized to search a large swamp area along with the helicopter. Multiple K9 teams searched along drainages and in thick wooded areas near the home.

Just before 8 p.m., after about 4 ½ hours, the child was located by a New England Canine Search Team.

The child was cold but very happy to see the canine and the search team.

She was carried out to a waiting Canaan Ambulance and then transported to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to be evaluated.

Fish and Game thanked everyone who helped in this Search and Rescue Mission. Over 90 volunteers assisted in this search.