[News: Town]
At 12:35 PM an AMBER Alert is issued when a three year old boy disappears from the BusyBee Pre-School playground during lunchtime recess. While no one can confirm an abduction, the age of the child, and the winter weather watch currently on the books allows for the situation to be considered critical. The child, male, 3 years old, blonde hair and brown eyes, was last seen on the playground. No one reported seeing anything, or anyone, out of the ordinary. Phones with alerts, televisions, radios, and news alerts are pinging countywide by 12:40 PM.
By 2:30 PM, more and more people are helping search, going door to door. And the winter weather alert has been effectively cancelled as the storm seemed to stall and dissipate. The pressure and wind from the storm seemed to cause an unseasonably warm afternoon in Repose, not balmy by any means, but the rain stopped - visibility cleared up - making life a little easier for the deputies and volunteers who were out going door to door looking for the still missing boy.
Before it got dark there were posters.
They were lining the streets and shop windows. All local law enforcement and public safety employees are all mobilizing search and rescue efforts.
A preliminary investigation of the school grounds noted a hole in the fence that he might have been able to wander off under, but the teachers were certain they'd have noticed him trying to escape.
The boy's mother, a teacher at the primary school, didn't speak to any press but the local Sheriff's department said on her behalf that she was grateful for everyone coming out to help look for her son, she was sure he would be home safe and sound soon with everyone helping to find him. The family's pictures are all over the news shortly. As is anything they've been able to find out about said family. They've lived in town five years, the boy was born in town, single mother of two, "well loved teacher," all the right buzz words were said during the breaking news story, and repeated again at 5, 6, and 10 and 11.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact 911 or the Sheriff's department. Deputies and the volunteer fire department are organizing round the clock search parties, for further information go to the Fire Station.
The night continues its warmer than average trend, but enjoy it while you can, meteorologists expect it will be back to the cold frigid temperatures tomorrow. But they have (clearly) been wrong before.