FORT FAIRFIELD (AP) – No progress was reported Thursday as searchers continued to look for a 3-year-old girl who disappeared from her home near the flood-swollen Aroostook River. The search resumes today, officials said.
The Maine Warden Service said there were six boats on the river, divers in the water, searchers on the riverbanks and a plane and a helicopter overhead. Searchers were concentrating on a two-mile stretch of river in Fort Fairfield east to the Canadian border.
The girl – identified as Alexandria Winship-Wright – was reported to have been last seen around noon on Wednesday, when her mother said she left the toddler unattended momentarily. When she returned, a sliding glass door leading to the river was open and the girl was nowhere in sight, authorities said.
One of Alexandra’s boots was found Wednesday afternoon about 500 feet downriver from the family’s apartment, and the other boot was later found about a mile downriver, said Mark Latti, spokesman for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
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