Police dog helps rescue boy with special needs during snowstorm

A North Carolina lad with peculiar needs is location harmless aft helium wandered disconnected during a large snowstorm, according to police, who credited a K-9 with assisting successful the rescue effort.

The child, 13, walked distant from his location connected Saturday nighttime "during the tallness of the snowstorm," the Gastonia Police Department said connected societal media. The lad was not wearing due clothing, the section said. 

Temperatures were beneath freezing connected Saturday night, according to CBS affiliate KCNC. Gastonia received respective inches of caller snow, connected apical of snowfall and crystal accumulations that had already fallen the week before. The lad "was astatine superior hazard owed to the dangerously acold and snowy conditions," the section said. 

Multiple agencies were called to assistance hunt for the child. A K-9 serviceman named Bo was fixed an point belonging to the lad to smell. He rapidly began tracking the scent. 

While Bo tracked the boy, the Gastonia constabulary department, sheriff's bureau and EMS established a secured perimeter to hunt for the child. 

Gastonia Police Department K-9 canine Bo aft searching for a missing child.  Gastonia Police Department

The kid "wandered into" that perimeter, the Gastoina Police Department said, and was spotted by EMS workers. They were capable to safely rescue the boy. He was "cold, but unharmed," the constabulary section said. 

The section said "quick action, beardown teamwork and the dedication of everyone involved" made the cognition successful. The section gave a peculiar shout-out to Bo, who "performed good successful the midst of terrible weather" and was covered successful snowfall by the extremity of the search. 

Gastonia is simply a metropolis of astir 80,000 radical astir 20 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. 

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