A five-year-old autistic boy who wandered away from his home in Deltona, Florida, was found safe by deputies with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
The young boy escaped from his house through a second-story door around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday (August 6). When the boy opened the door, it triggered an alarm, and his parents immediately called 911 and began asking the neighbors if they had seen their son.
Authorities said that the boy was attracted to water, so deputies began searching nearby bodies of water. While searching a pond several blocks away from the boy’s home, one of the deputies heard the boy call out.
“Around 7:48 p.m., Deputy Brough heard a voice and spotted the boy out in the water, hanging onto a log. Deputy Brough jumped into the pond and carried the boy to dry land, where he was medically cleared and returned to his family,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Officials also shared body camera footage from the officers who rescued the boy. Watch it below:
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