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A photographer by the name Steve Fines recently proved to the world once more that if the technology is used in the right way, it can end up saving lives. In this particular case, the photographer used a drone that had on it a thermal camera which allowed the said photographer to save the life of a 6 years old kid. The kid was left stranded in the 30 degrees of snowy weather outside for more than 10 hours.
The name of this little boy was Ethan Haus who got lost in snowy weather last Tuesday. Ethan got off of his school bus in the area of Becker, Minnesota and then rushed with his pet dog named Remmie to play somewhere. After that moment, he went out; he was never found until for 10 hours.
With no luck finding the trace of the boy who went missing for several hours, a search operation was started by the local police department.
600 plus volunteers joined up in the search and rescue mission for Ethan but the whole search operation was made difficult due to the cold weather. The weather had plummeted to below to as much as 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
Almost 8 hours had passed since Ethan went missing and then suddenly his footsteps were found by a few volunteers. This is when Steve Fines came to the scene. He came with his drone which had on it installed a thermal camera. Searching for hours through this drone, he finally found the direction in which the volunteers needed to look for. Fines told media, “I saw a shape of what appeared to be that of a dog or a child.” By the time the image was seen on the thermal camera, 10 hours had already passed.
Ethan was found about 1 and a half-mile away from home. Although the body was feeling extremely cold, the paramedics on the spot said that he was out of any immediate danger.
Although all the people over social media praised Fines’ efforts of locating the child, Fines himself did praise the whole community of the volunteers that helped in the whole rescue mission.
Fines said in a Facebook post as follows,
“I just wanted to give a heartfelt thank you to all the folks who have reached out to me after my drone and the thermal camera helped find Ethan a couple of nights ago in Sherburne County. While I was running the camera that found him and some of the news stories have focused on that, I only knew in which direction to look because volunteers on the ground had found a footprint that pointed me in the right direction. I knew which areas had already been searched because of the excellent coordination of the Sherburne County Sheriff. I had other volunteers running radios to coordinate ground search parties – the people moving across really rough ground to find him.”
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