Courtesy of State troopers in Jackson County MichiganSpring evening temperatures around Detroit were falling to a high of 40°F when Jackson County state troopers took to the air to search for a toddler who’d gone missing in nothing but his diaper.
The story, which has a happy ending, is a reminder to all parents of just how challenging it can be to keep enough eyes on your child, especially at the end of the day when you’re feeling drained.
“The child was in the living room. They walked out. They come back a few minutes later and the door to the apartment unit was open,” Michigan State Trooper Brandon Franklin, a tactical flight officer, explained to ABC‘s “Good Morning America.”
This was around 8 p.m. on April 5th in Blackman Charter Township, about an hour outside of Detroit.
With light and heat rapidly vanishing, Franklin and his co-pilot Cole Martin took to the skies with infrared heat-sensing technology in the hopes of detecting the toddler from above.
As both men are fathers to their own children, they weren’t going to stop while hope remained.
Mercifully, after just 15 minutes of searching, the two men detected a small white-hot figure in a ditch by the highway.
In camera footage released by Michigan State Police, one of the troopers can be heard saying, “We got him!”
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Awake and alert, the toddler was reunited with his parents.
“Later on at night, it dropped below freezing,” Franklin said. “So if no one would have found this child, the outcome would not have been the same most likely.”
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Martin added that it was a privilege to have been able to help.
“We train for this and make sure that we leave with happy endings and don’t fall short of that,” Martin added.
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