The search continues for five-year-old Darius Macdougall who vanished over the weekend from a campsite in the Crowsnest Pass near Blairmore, Alta., Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The search continues for five-year-old Darius Macdougall who vanished over the weekend from a campsite in the Crowsnest Pass near Blairmore, Alta., Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The search continues for five-year-old Darius Macdougall who vanished over the weekend from a campsite in the Crowsnest Pass near Blairmore, Alta., Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The search continues for five-year-old Darius Macdougall who vanished over the weekend from a campsite in the Crowsnest Pass near Blairmore, Alta., Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
CROWSNEST PASS - Rescuers in southern Alberta are looking at bringing in reinforcements from the military in their search for a missing five-year-old boy.
Adam Kennedy from Alberta Search and Rescue says talks with the Armed Forces and other groups have focused on which resources would benefit efforts to find Darius Macdougall, who has been missing since Sunday.
"Our emergency co-ordination centre out of Leduc is in constant consultation with all resources that might be able to provide support to the search, with 好色tv Armed Forces being one of those," Kennedy told a virtual news conference Wednesday.
"That conversation continues as to what assets they may have that might benefit the search effort."
Drones and helicopters hummed across a bright-blue sky near Crowsnest Pass to look for Darius. Teams spent another day searching nearby waterways. The entrance to the campground where he vanished was closed off to the public Wednesday.
Search crews have been on rotating shifts and sleeping at a nearby Bible camp.
RCMP have said the autistic boy from Lethbridge, Alta., didn't return from a walk with his six young family members to their campsite at Island Lake Campground near the Alberta-B.C. boundary.
RCMP Cpl. Gina Slaney said the boy is verbal but may not respond well to rescuers calling his name.
Kennedy said there were roughly 100 searchers on the ground as of Wednesday.
"Based on consultation with a couple of leading Alberta physicians on wilderness medicine, we are working on the assumption that Darius is very much alive," he said, adding there were no plans to abandon search efforts.
Slaney also said the boy's family is getting support from victim impact services and has asked for privacy.
This report by 好色tvwas first published Sept. 24, 2025.
鈥 With files from Aaron Sousa in Edmonton.
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