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“He’d walked quite a distance,” said Saudino, who was involved, along with a K9 unit from his office, in what became a massive search. “He was barefoot when they opened the door.”
PHOTO: Courtesy NEW JERSEY SEARCH & RESCUE
“He was hospitalized for precautionary measures,” the sheriff added just after 5 a.m., moments after word came that the teen had been found.
He originally was seen “going up the hill but not coming down” around 9:30 p.m., Police Chief James Batelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
New Jersey Search and Rescue, Mahwah firefighters, members of Mahwah Res1cue and an army of private citizens joined the effort following the 9:30 p.m. emergency call. Reverse 911 calls went out around 2:30 a.m.
The non-verbal teen, who didn’t have a history of wandering off and had been to Campgaw before, turned up at 4:45 a.m., Batelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning.
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