- Missing child found sleeping on laundry piles
A toddler gave his father a good scare - but there was a happy ending. The three-year-old boy disappeared suddenly on Saturday evening in Gelsenkirchen. Dozens of people and rescue services searched for him.
The place where the child was finally found after two hours was, according to the police, not where one would expect: "The boy was sleeping on a pile of laundry in a closet in the house," a spokesperson told dpa.
Search with tracking dog, drones, and heat camera
The father had reported to the police that his son had apparently slipped away unnoticed from the garden. Immediately, police and firefighter units, as well as numerous neighbors in the vicinity of the house, began searching for the boy. A tracking dog and drones were also deployed.
The happy ending in the frantic search came when a heat camera was used to find the son in the closet. "Probably it was quiet, or the laundry smelled like mom and dad," the police spokesperson speculated about why the child ended up in the closet.
The firefighters joined the effort to find the missing boy, utilizing their search and rescue skills. Despite the extensive search involving tracking dogs, drones, and heat cameras, it was the firefighter's equipment that ultimately led to the boy's discovery.
