A 10-year-old girl who went missing in the woods of Louisiana was found safely and is now back home with her family, thanks to the help of a thermal imaging drone.
Peyton Saintignan went missing at about 10 p.m. on Sept. 14 after she sleepwalked into the woods near her Shreveport, Louisiana-area home, according to officials with the Webster Parish Sheriff’s Office.
“Our office was notified that Peyton was missing. The family and neighbors had already been looking for her about an hour,” Webster Parish Sheriff Jason Parker told “Good Morning America.”
The sheriff, Louisiana State Police and hundreds of volunteers worked together to search the woods, including drone operator Josh Klober, who traveled about 40 miles from Arkansas to Louisiana to lend a hand.
Klober, a co-owner of Drone Management Services LLC, brought a drone equipped with a thermal imaging camera to help in the search, which was aided by a picture of Peyton taken by a trail camera used by hunters.