{"id":5218,"date":"2011-03-02T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2011-03-02T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:59:16","slug":"breaking-news-missing-10-year-old-silver-creek-girl-found-safe-at-bottom-of-steep-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5218","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Missing 10-year-old Silver Creek girl found safe at bottom of steep bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This news story was updated at 9:57 a.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A search that began last night for a 10-year-old girl in Silver Creek ended early this morning when deputies discovered she had fallen down a steep bank near her home on Mayfield Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The child, whose name was not released, was cold but suffered only minor scratches and has been reunited with her family, according to the Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>She was found about 5:30 a.m. at the edge of the lake, where she had spent the night, according to a news release. She was lucky, as she was wearing two coats and the weather overnight was mild, Sheriff Steve Mansfield said in the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies called just before 9 o&#8217;clock last night to the Silver Creek home were told the child had last been seen about 7 p.m. outside in her yard, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the neighborhood and a wooded area around the home, into the night, which including using two search dogs, was unsuccessful, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The home is on the 100 block of Crater View Drive, just west of Mayfield Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Additional deputies arrived about 5 a.m. to continue looking and a noise was heard, leading to voice contact with the girl at about 5:30 a.m., the news release stated.<\/p>\n<p>The news release continues on to say:<\/p>\n<p>Deputies climbed down an extremely steep bank and a local fishing guide brought his boat to pick her up.<\/p>\n<p>The girl said she had been walking too close to the bank and slipped and fell over the edge. She couldn&#8217;t climb back up, so she continued approximately 300 yards to the edge of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of those incidents where time and the weather are working against you and the intense coordinated search effort paid off,&#8221; Mansfield said in the news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news story was updated at 9:57 a.m. By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A search that began last night for a 10-year-old girl in Silver Creek ended early this morning when deputies discovered she had fallen down a steep bank near her home on Mayfield Lake. The child, whose name was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5221,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}