WESTMINSTER — A 21-year-old man is back with his family after being missing for a full day.
Adam Bos-Lun was released after evaluation for hypothermia at Springfield Hospital after wandering from the woods 3½ miles from his CCC Road home.
According to his mother, Michelle Bos-Lun, her son sought help at the door of a Kurn Hattin Road resident shortly before 8 p.m. on Saturday night, almost 25 hours after he left the family home the previous evening.
State police were notified at 12:30 a.m. Saturday that Adam Bos-Lun was missing.
“He's very tall and very thin. He did not have adequate clothing, and he was out overnight. I'm surprised he didn't have hypothermia,” his mother said.
Describing the situation as “very, very difficult,” she said that police had just notified the family that emergency personnel were halting search efforts for the night when the call came that Adam was alive and safe.
'Always kind, always generous, always professional'
The Vermont State Police Search and Rescue Team subsequently did a search, with assistance from the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Westminster Fire Department, Upper Valley Rescue, New England K-9 and a helicopter from the Vermont National Guard. Police thanked those agencies.
Michelle Bos-Lun said that an emergency staging area was created at the Westminster Fire Department.
Seven teams combed the woods in a half-mile radius from the family home, she said.
Emergency personnel were “always kind, always professional, always generous,” she said.
“There was an amazing amount of support from the community with offers to help,” she added.
Ultimately, she said, the search efforts failed to find him, but thanks to the infrastructure that was established so quickly, “he was instantly able to get the help he instantly needed.”
She described the “amazing outpouring of support from the community in many, many ways,” including the social networks of the Compass School, where her husband, Ron, teaches science, and from Youth Services, where she works as an inter-cultural studies teacher for the Boys and Girls Club in Bellows Falls.
Bos-Lun said that her husband's Compass School colleagues stepped in at the very last minute to take over his duties directing the all-school play, which opened on Friday night. Adam Bos-Lun was also a student at the school, his mother said.
Bos-Lun's uncle, Erick Kruger, stayed in touch on Facebook and helped keep the media apprised of the situation.
In an email that night, Kruger announced that his nephew had been found safely.
“Thank you for your prayers,” he wrote.