Park rangers and more than 100 volunteers worked together to find an eight-year-old Maryland boy who became separated from his family while visiting a cave in Arizona.
Tzion Maron, of Baltimore, went missing near the entrance to the Lava River Caves near Flagstaff on Wednesday after his family was unable to locate him in the immediate area, prompting search and rescue crews to be called around 6:15 p.m.
Hundreds of volunteers, including 14 members of Chaverim from Rockland County, New York, who flew in to help, searched for the Jewish boy, who was found Thursday.
Search crews searched for Maron throughout the night Wednesday despite rainy weather and were concerned the boy was suffering from hypothermia due to the weather.
The Rockland group found Maron “sleeping next to a tree,” said Isaac Kliknick, a Chaverim volunteer from Rockland. ABC 15.
Dramatic photos show the group wrapping the boy in a silver blanket as they gathered around him after a long night of searching.
Tzion Maron, of Baltimore, went missing near the opening of the Lava River Caves near Flagstaff on Wednesday after his family was unable to locate him in the immediate area, prompting search and rescue crews to be called around 6:15 p.m.
Search crews searched for Maron throughout the night Wednesday despite rainy weather and were concerned the boy was suffering from hypothermia due to the weather.
The Rockland group found Maron “sleeping next to a tree.” Dramatic photos show the group wrapping the boy in a silver blanket as they gathered around him after a long night of searching.
He was taken to the hospital for a check-up.
“We got there, we got there. Everybody stopped, they jumped, they did whatever they could to make sure we got the boy home safely,” Kliknick told ABC 15.
The Rockland group flew out after some members of Maron’s extended family, who live in the area, contacted the organization, according to WMAR 2.
Dozens of groups volunteered to help find Maron, including Baltimore Shomrim, Chaverim of Baltimore and Hatzalah of Baltimore, among others.
Rabbi Dovie Shapiro of Chabad of Flagstaff was proud to see how the Jewish community stepped up for little Maron, telling ABC 15, “When someone is in need, you feel like it’s your own child, your own family, and you want to do something to be a part of that.”
Hundreds of volunteers, including 14 members of the Chaverim of Rockland County, New York, who flew in to help, searched for the Jewish boy, who was found Thursday.
Rabbi Dovie Shapiro of Chabad of Flagstaff was proud to see how the Jewish community
Shapiro said the family is “overwhelmed” and very “grateful” that the boy has been found safe.
“We are all very grateful to God for being able to celebrate with them,” the rabbi said.
Another 8-year-old boy, Canyon Hartley, also went missing Thursday morning near a campground at the Grand Canyon, according to ABC 15.
Hours later he was found safe and sound.