Vermont, Flash flood
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Crews escorted the missing children off Camel’s Hump mountain in Vermont early Friday to be reunited with their families.
Camp personnel called State Police at 6:20 p.m. on Thursday after the children didn’t return from what was supposed to be a 30-minute hike, authorities said.
Two boys, aged 14 and 11, and a 12-year-old girl didn’t return from their hike off Duxbury Road in Bolton on July 10
Vermont State Police said two boys and a girl, all 14 and younger, left their summer camp around 4 p.m. Thursday and did not come back. The search is ongoing.
This year's flash floods were confined to the northeastern part of the state. They were far less catastrophic than those of the previous two years.
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A Connecticut man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after he was found with multiple types of drugs and a gun in Vermont by agents patrolling near the Canadian border who later discovered he was wanted on a warrant charging him in a Hartford shooting.
Three children who went missing during a hike near Camels Hump, VT were found safe and uninjured early Friday morning, authorities said.
According to police, the hikers -- two boys, ages 14 and 11, and a 12-year-old girl -- were found unharmed just before 6 a.m.
"Talk about how your community needs to be reshaped and how you can practically and thoughtfully make those changes over time," Douglas Farnam said. "Because we can't snap our fingers and be flood resilient.
In an eerie case of Deja-vu the town of Sutton was hit with five inches of rain over a few hours on Thursday afternoon.