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Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Yahoo
Police rescue 7-year-old Mass. boy lost in swamp
Merrimac and Amesbury first responders rescued a 7-year-old boy who became lost in a swamp over a mile away from his home Friday evening. Merrimac police and firefighters received a report about a 7-year-old boy who was missing from a home on East Main Street shortly before 7:40 p.m., authorities said in a press release. Several on and off-duty officers responded, including one K-9 officer and an Amesbury officer who offered to use a drone to aid in the search. After an intensive search, they found the boy 1.3 miles away from his home, authorities said. He was waist-deep in a swamp and unable to move. The officers freed the child and were led out of the woods with the help of some drones, authorities said. Merrimac firefighters treated the boy at the scene, but he was taken to a local hospital as a precaution. Merrimac Police Chief Eric Shears spoke with the boy's mother Saturday morning, authorities said. She said her son is doing well and that she is 'extremely grateful for everyone who helped out, and all the officers and everyone involved were absolutely amazing.' 'I have never been prouder of the department, our mutual aid partners and our community,' Shears said in the release. ' ... Had this child not been located this quickly, I fear our community might have faced a tragic outcome. The professionalism, dedication and overall excellence of the team led to the best possible result in a very difficult situation.' Springfield approves new 5,000-gallon tank to allow Peter Pan Bus to fuel vehicles Springfield men indicted on drug trafficking charges in Vermont Former President Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer Cape Cod high school senior killed in car crash Man chased victim, assaulted them with hatchet in Boston road rage incident Read the original article on MassLive.
CBS News
18-05-2025
- CBS News
Missing boy rescued from Massachusetts swamp by police, K9 named "Meatball"
Police officers and a K9 named Meatball helped track down a missing boy who was stuck in a Massachusetts swamp Friday night. The 7-year-old was reported missing from his Merrimac home on East Main Street just after 7:30 p.m., and that's when an "intensive search" began involving first responders from Merrimac and Amesbury, police said. Police said three officers and K9 Meatball found the boy 1.3 miles away from home "in a swampy marsh, waist-deep in water and unable to move out of the mud," authorities said. The officers were able to pull him out of the mud, and made their way out of the woods with the help of drone units. "Had this child not been located this quickly, I fear our community might have faced a tragic outcome," Merrimac Police Chief Eric Shears said in a statement. The boy was taken to a local hospital for evaluation and released, and his mother said he is doing well now. K9 Meatball helps track down missing Merrimac boy Amesbury Police Chief Craig Bailey praised the first responders and the K9 team for finding the boy quickly. "We train together for moments such as this hoping we would never need to answer this type of call," Bailey said. "Ultimately, Officer Nichols' track with K-9 Meatball and the support during the track by Officer Hewey and Officer Ryan DeVaney led to this positive outcome." K9 Meatball, who is partnered with officer Tommy Nichols, turned 5 years old in January. He joined the force in 2022 and is the offspring of Amesbury patrol K9 Achilles. On behalf of Chief Craig Bailey and the entire APD team, please help us in congratulating Officer Thomas Nichols and K-9... Posted by Amesbury Police Department (OFFICIAL) on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Chief Bailey previously told The Newburyport News that it was Nichols' family that gave Meatball his unique name. "When we learned his name, it was a hit," Bailey told the newspaper. Last month, a police K9 in Milford jumped into a stream to rescue a missing 8-year-old boy who was found clinging to a tree.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Turret of USS Monitor visible at Mariners' Museum
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Hampton Roads has a rich history, and there's no more memorable battle than the one between the Monitor and the Merrimac. The turret of the USS Monitor is in the middle of preservation, and has been in a tank for several years. Visitors receive rare chance to view historic USS Monitor turret at Mariners' Museum and Park It's a tight squeeze, but take a look inside a tank that sits a piece of Naval history, as 10 On Your Side got a special look inside the Civil War battleship. 'The Monitor story really is a Hampton Roads story,' said Will Hoffman of the Mariners' Museum. 'It's a story of technology. The story of the Navy is a story of shipbuilding. It's a story of people.' The turret sits upside down inside the tank that's normally filled with a solution meant to help preserve it. 'We're draining it to do some visual inspection of the turret and shifting around some artifact,' Hoffman said. 'And we're really draining it to clean the clutch chemical system that's on the surface of the object.' Launched out of New York in January 1862, it fought the CSS Virginia to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads in March of that same year. Later in December, while in tow, it sank in rough waters, 16 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras. While the ship didn't have a long life, it left an impact that's still being felt today. 'That turret is the first turret that fought in combat in world history,' Hoffman said. 'Every turret on a ship, you know, from gun battleships all the way through now with autonomous lidar you see on modern ships, all that comes from the turret that's sitting in that tank behind me. … This is an actual artillery shot from the battle of Hampton Roads.' Through 3D imaging done in 2016, they can tell where every dent and ding came from, and which battle it came from. Some are in old photos of the ship. 'These dents are those dents up there,' Hoffman said. The hope one day is to flip that turret right-side up. 'That's our next big phase of the tour is turning it over,' Hoffman said, 'so that that can set the stage, ultimately, to finish the object and get it out on display.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Museum breaks ground on new hall
The Columbia River Maritime Museum held a ceremonial groundbreaking Friday for Mariners Hall, its $31.5 million expansion project. Mariners Hall, which will be a two-story building adjacent to the museum off Marine Drive, will display dozens of historic vessels and artifacts in a second exhibit hall. The hall is expected to add more than 24,000 square feet of exhibit space. Attendees at Friday's groundbreaking were able to examine a model of the Mariners Hall in the museum. Exhibit plans for Mariners Hall include showcasing several boats now in storage, such as the Merrimac, a 45-foot wooden yacht built by Astoria Marine Construction Co. in 1938, and The Duke, a salmon tender built in 1902 by Wilson Bros. in Astoria. The largest of the hall's exhibits will be the 52-foot motor lifeboat Triumph II, which served local fishermen at Point Adams and Cape Disappointment for 60 years. Other plans for the new building include a classroom for museum education programs and a science, technology, engineering, arts and math space. The museum is working with Rickenbach Construction, based in Astoria, as the project's general contractor, along with Portland-based Opsis Architecture and Seattle-based exhibit designer Storyline Studio.
