Emotional video shows how thermal camera helped find missing child

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The police used thermal cameras to find a 2-year-old child who was lost on a cold night wearing only a diaper.

The Michigan police in the USA used thermal cameras to locate a 2-year-old child who was lost on a cold night wearing only a diaper.

In a press release, the Blackman-Leoni Department of Public Safety reported that on Saturday evening around 8:43 PM local time, a child had gone missing from their home, and authorities were alerted.

Volunteers and police began the search, and the child was found safely around 11:33 PM thanks to thermal camera technology.

A two-minute video released by the Michigan State Police on their Facebook page shows the helicopter tracking a heat signal in a wooded area and detecting the signal about 15 minutes after starting to search the area.

Two officers on the ground were directed to the location; they found the child in a ditch, huddled, cold, but “alert and conscious,” the authorities reported. The officers can be seen holding and comforting the child as they carry them to an awaiting ambulance.

According to the Department of Public Safety, the child was taken to the hospital for evaluation and is “in good condition.”

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