Hero Dog saves wandering toddler

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the child disappeared around 3:15 p.m. after the family’s two dogs slipped through a weak point where a wooden fence met a metal one.

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More than 90 volunteers responded, many of them local residents. “They are all volunteers, doing this all on their own time … the sheer outpouring of support was incredible,” McKee said. Among those volunteers was Jeremy Corson, a software engineer from Concord who has spent over a decade volunteering with New England K9 Search and Rescue. His partner, Freyja, a 7-year-old German shepherd, is trained and certified to locate missing people.

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Just before 8 p.m. — nearly five hours after she disappeared — Freyja caught the scent of a person.

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Corson found the child about half a mile from her home. She was cold, frightened, and barefoot, but alert. He wrapped her in warm clothes and carried her through the woods to a waiting ambulance.

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