Runaway boy back - helpers come with special drones
Created: 01/11/2022Updated: 01/11/2022, 10:03 AM
From: Thomas Steinhardt, Tobias Gehre
With a whole team, drone pilots from the Rescue Network Association moved to their meeting point at the Eichenau train station.
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Big search on Sunday in Eichenau: After an argument with his mother, a twelve-year-old ran away from home that morning.
Eichenau - A search followed - the police issued a public search with a photo. The wanted man wanted the boy to be near train stations because he was a fan of trains. And so it was: S-Bahn passengers became aware of the boy at the Ostbahnhof in Munich and informed the railway police. The twelve-year-old was scared and hypothermic, it said there. Otherwise, the officers were able to hand the boy over to the legal guardians without prejudice to it. "Fortunately, everything went well," commented a spokesman for the responsible police in Germering on Monday.
The rescuers also received help in their search from several drone pilots. These have come together in the rescue network association. The volunteers found out about the search for the boy on Facebook, explains chairman Michael Klingsöhr. Immediately they made their way to Eichenau and contacted the boy's relatives. So you wanted to narrow down the search locations.
From Klingsöhr's point of view, the small, unmanned flying objects are the ideal helpers. The devices, which cost more than 10,000 euros, have thermal imaging cameras and, in some cases, searchlights and loudspeakers. In addition, you can search huge areas with them. “Time is a decisive factor,” says Michael Klingsöhr. The helpers have already been deployed several times in the district with their aircraft - including looking for two missing persons. The tasks of the volunteers also include looking for fawns in fields that are to be mowed. Last year alone, around 400 animals were saved in this way.
However, the rescuers were no longer used on Sunday evening.
When the first drone was about to take off, the police reported that the boy had been found.
“It's always the best ending for us,” says drone rescuer Michael Klingsöhr.
