More details on the search, terrain and weather:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7733619/officer-toddler-ontario-woods-recovery/

And this from the OPP officers who found him:

“As I was tying a piece of flagging tape to a tree branch, I saw something blue up ahead and just off to the right — you don’t see a lot of blue in nature in the bush — and it stood out,” McNames said in an interview with Global News Thursday.

The officers realized it was Jude, sleeping near the pond.

“Then Jude, the little boy, raised his head and opened his eyes and (another officer) said: ‘and he’s alive,'” McNames said.

Not only did Jude survive, but McNames said he seemed in good condition.

“I just picked him up and he was really thirsty,” McNames said.

OPP are unsure how Jude did so well out in the sometimes below zero, rainy and blustery weather, but the answer might be his clothes.

“When I picked him up, he was warm, he wasn’t cold, he wasn’t shivering. He was wet, but the wool sweater might have saved him,” McNames said. “He’s a tough little guy.”



Edited by dougwalkabout (04/02/21 04:24 AM)