Dramatic footage shows heat-seeking tech leading rescuers to missing Michigan toddler curled up in ditch

Michigan State Police (MSP) connected Sunday rescued a missing 2-year-old lad curled up successful a ditch connected the broadside of the freeway utilizing heat-detecting technology.

Video footage of the heat-seeking imaginativeness exertion from a helicopter, shared by MSP connected Facebook, shows the melodramatic rescue.

"I got different vigor censor. We're going to beryllium southbound of the apartment, conscionable northbound of the freeway.… In a ditch. I can't archer if it's an carnal oregon a child," an MSP trooper says implicit a constabulary vigor successful the video.

"This is looking similar this is perchance the child, but it can't beryllium confirmed yet," the serviceman tin beryllium heard saying a infinitesimal aboriginal successful the footage. 

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Video footage of the heat-seeking imaginativeness exertion from a helicopter, shared by MSP connected Facebook, shows the melodramatic rescue of a 2-year-old Michigan boy. (Michigan State Police)

The rescue began connected Sunday evening, erstwhile the Blackman-Leoni Department of Public Safety (BLDPS) responded to the country of Pheasant Run Drive successful Blackman Township aft receiving a telephone astir a missing 2-year-old boy, who was past seen watching TV successful his family's surviving country astir 8:43 p.m. 

The 911 telephone came done astir an hr later.

Multiple agencies responded and units to the area, including the Blackman-Leoni K-9 unit, a MSP K-9 unit, a MSP helicopter, officers from respective antithetic departments and volunteers who "conducted a thorough search" for "nearly 2 hours," BLDPS said successful a property release.

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(Michigan State Police recovered the toddler curled up successful a ditch.)

At astir 11:33 p.m., MSP Aviation located the missing kid adjacent Interstate 94, curled up successful a ditch, wearing lone a diaper, the BLDPS said.

Troopers utilizing heat-seeking exertion located the 2-year-old "within 15 minutes successful the area," MSP said successful a Facebook post.

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Troopers utilizing heat-seeking exertion located the 2-year-old, who was wearing lone a diaper, "within 15 minutes successful the area," MSP said successful a Facebook post. (Michigan State Police)

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"Trooper 2 directed crushed units to the child, who was conscious and alert and did not look injured. You tin spot officers comforting the kid arsenic they walked [sic] to a waiting ambulance," MSP said.

Authorities transported the toddler to a adjacent infirmary successful bully condition, officials said.

MSP did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.