Schoolboy Rescues Missing Grandmother Near Yekaterinburg After She Wandered Off
The boy encountered the missing woman in the entrance of his apartment building.
In Verkhnyaya Pyshma, a schoolboy rescued an elderly woman who had left home and gotten lost. 72-year-old Tatyana Dmitrievna was being searched for by her relatives, and the volunteer group LizaAlert joined the search. The boy saw their alert on social media when he was returning from classes.
«We were all lucky that he was very attentive, because the missing woman happened to meet him by chance in the entrance of his building. And at that moment, the main miracle of this search occurred: the boy recognized the lonely grandmother as the missing person from the alert and approached to help,» said the LizaAlert group.
Just at that moment, a specialist from the search group was already talking on the phone with Tatyana Dmitrievna. But the woman was disoriented and could not explain where she was.
«The specialist from the »Forest on Call« unit heard the boy»s voice on the phone and asked to pass the receiver to him; the schoolboy was able to explain where to direct our volunteers. Thanks to the child«s courage and attentiveness, we were able to quickly find the missing woman and return her to her family,» said the search group.
Read E1.RU«s guide on what to do if a loved one goes missing. We have written about how to protect your child from abduction and how to teach children never to go with strangers under any circumstances. We have also published a rescuer»s advice on how to behave if you get lost in the forest.
We also told how to understand that the person in front of you needs help.
