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Theresa
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 Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:56 pm Intensive Search Ends in Utah |
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| Quote: | By PAUL FOY, AP
KAMAS, Utah (June 21) - An 11-year-old boy who vanished from a Boy Scout camp was found alive and in good condition Tuesday after spending four days lost in the rugged Utah wilderness.
Sheriff Dave Edmunds said Brennan Hawkins was ''a little dehydrated, a little weak, but other than that, he was in very good health.''
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, sheriff said.
Authorities planned to take the youngster to a hospital to be checked out.
Thousands of searchers - many of them volunteers - had scoured the area for the boy, using long poles to probe a swollen river.
The youngster from the Salt Lake City suburb of Bountiful was found just before noon near Lily Lake, about five miles from the camp in the Uinta Mountains where he was last seen Friday. He was reunited with his parents and their four other children.
Brennan 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.
It was not immediately clear how he survived or whether he tried to find his way back to camp. ''He didn't talk much at all. He just wanted something to eat,'' the sheriff said.
Edmunds said investigators will wait until the boy has had time to recover before questioning him.
Kay Godfrey, a spokeswoman for the Boy Scouts' Great Salt Lake Council, pronounced the boy's rescue a ''modern-day miracle.''
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,'' Nunley said.
By the Numbers
The Search
4
Days Hawkins was missing 3,000
Estimated number of volunteers
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Where He Was Found
100
Miles northeast of Salt Lake City 5
Miles from where was last seen
Sources: AP, cnn.com
During the search, rescuers had feared the boy had fallen into 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. Deep-water rescue teams searched the river, while others combed the rugged area around it.
On Monday, rescuers found three socks and a sandal in the river, but none belonged to Brennan. The boys' parents also sifted fruitlessly through enough clothing collected from the mountains to fill the bed of a pickup.
Among the volunteer searchers was Kevin Bardsley, whose 12-year-old son, Garrett, vanished last August while camping at a nearby lake. He was never found despite a weeklong search.
''When we came off this mountain in the winter, my friends and I decided right then, if anyone came missing, we'd be there immediately,'' Bardsley said.
AP-NY-06-21-05 17:10 EDT
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press
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Kyle Reese
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| Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:11 pm |
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Finally! A missing person case with a happy ending! 
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Theresa
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| Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:24 pm |
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Yeah, it's incredible.
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AndrewBullock
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| Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:25 pm |
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Wow.. to hear this story is very heart warming to myself and others as well. It makes you wonder what he survived off of. I can go one day without eating. 4 days? No. lol.. but i'm really glad to hear he's okay. 
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| Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:40 pm |
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::sighs with relief:: Good news.
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| Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:58 am |
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| Kyle Reese wrote: | | Finally! A missing person case with a happy ending! |
Exactly. 
and in remarkably in good shape, as I saw him on CNN. he could talk and wave and stuff, so...!
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| Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:31 am |
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One kid, mankind is so hypocrite 
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Leo Wyatt
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| Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:50 am |
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That's not nice Dirt
I am glad they found him as well.
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Theresa
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| Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:15 am |
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Gosh, will they be hypocrites when little Dirk Jr gets lost somewhere?
Daddy Dirk: "hell, it's just one kid, he should've known better, we'll just have to find another Dirk Jr"
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| Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:26 am |
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How did he survive without water? Did he drink out of a catus or summat?
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| Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:38 am |
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| Theresa wrote: | Gosh, will they be hypocrites when little Dirk Jr gets lost somewhere?
Daddy Dirk: "hell, it's just one kid, he should've known better, we'll just have to find another Dirk Jr" |
one week later on CNN:
" Dirk Jr. has not been found however, they have arested a girl name "theresa" who seems to have kidnapped him...."
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Theresa
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| Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:42 pm |
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That was pretty stupid, Joey.
There was water.
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