James Delorey

MODEL/MEDIA LOG
Type of media: global news
Date/time spent: Sunday, December 6, 2009 7:38 PM
It was about: SOUTH BAR, N.S. — Heavy snow and strong winds were no help in the search for a young autistic boy missing in Nova Scotia on Sunday, but nor were they a deterrent to hundreds of determined residents who were scouring their community for any trace of the seven-year-old. There has been no sign of James Delorey since he was seen Saturday afternoon with his family’s dog outside their home in the community of South Bar in Cape Breton. Within hours of his disappearance, search-and-rescue officials were knocking on neighbours’ doors and asking for permission to search nearby properties in a race against time as the weather took a turn for the worse overnight.“It’s snowing and wet,” said Sgt. Ken O’Neill with the Cape Breton Regional Police. “We’re hoping if the weather breaks, we’ll be able to use the Cormorant (helicopter) again.” The weather prevented the helicopter from flying again Sunday, although Cape Breton police said the search would continue on the ground overnight into Monday and the Cormorant’s night-vision capabilities enabled it to search at night, weather permitting.“Visibility was limited and it wasn’t safe for them to be up in the air,” said Desiree Vassallo of Cape Breton Regional Police, adding “they do remain on standby.”“We still had well over 200 people out searching on foot and on ATVs; definitely there’s not been any less people out.”

What I found interesting: this story is such a tragedy. With the weather getting worse and worse every minute and James only being seven years old in no time he could have easily gotten buried under all that snow. This story is for every parents out there with little kids, always keep your kids where you can see them at all times and know that there’s nothing dangerous around them to harm themselves. Apparently not too far from the house there’s a forest. Apparently the family dog started to wander into the woods and they believe that James went after him but couldn’t find his way back. Hanna who had joined the rescue described the woods as a” real boggy, marshy-type of area, including ponds and tree trees with a few hills.” It’s also not far from a marina, and a police boat was in the water Sunday. Hundreds of people registered to help search the for the boy, Hanna said. “You wouldn’t believe the number of people looking with ATVs and off-road vehicles,” he said. Attention for the search was also growing online, where by Sunday afternoon concern about the missing boy from a community of roughly 2,000 people had prompted 11,000 people to register to a Facebook group called “Bring 7 year old James Delorey home safe!!”. Right now they haven’t had any luck, and the story is still going on.