K-9 hailed a hero for tracking missing boy during snowstorm in North Carolina

A constabulary K-9 helped pb officers to a missing 13-year-old lad during a snowstorm successful Gastonia, North Carolina, precocious Saturday, allowing exigency crews to find the kid safely contempt unsafe wintertime conditions, authorities said.

The Gastonia Police Department said connected Facebook that K-9 Bo and his handler, Sgt. Rowland, were called successful aft the boy, who has peculiar needs, near location connected ft without due covering arsenic snowfall and acold temperatures intensified.

Officers from aggregate agencies established a hunt perimeter portion the K-9 tracked the boy’s scent done the snowfall and darkness.

The kid aboriginal wandered into the secured country and was spotted by Gaston Emergency Medical Services, who recovered him acold but unharmed.

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Police K-9 Bo poses for a photograph successful the snowfall aft helping way a missing lad connected Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (Courtesy: Facebook/ Gastonia Police Department)

"This palmy result was made imaginable by speedy action, beardown teamwork, and the dedication of everyone progressive — particularly a snowy snouted K-9 Bo who performed good successful the midst of terrible weather," the constabulary section said.

FOX Weather reported that a historical nor’easter rapidly intensified disconnected the North Carolina seashore overnight Sunday, delivering grounds snowfall crossed parts of the Southeast and adjacent hurricane-force upwind gusts.

Sgt. Rowland with the Gastonia Police Department poses for a photograph with K-9 Bo connected Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (Courtesy: Facebook/ Gastonia Police Department)

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The tempest dropped much than a ft of snowfall successful parts of Tennessee, the Carolinas and Virginia, portion the strongest upwind gust reached 70 mph successful Nags Head, North Carolina, with the Outer Banks seeing wide gusts supra 65 mph.

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According to the FOX Forecast Center, the storm’s unit fell 33 millibars successful conscionable 24 hours Saturday nighttime into Sunday, arsenic arctic aerial tied to a displaced polar vortex collided with warm, moisture-laden aerial from the Gulf, fueling the explosive intensification.

FOX Weather’s Julian Atienza contributed to this report.