Wilderness Scouts Missing

MIAMI, FL — An academic field trip ends with two students missing. Miss Barbara Sullivan, a first year teacher here in Miami, took her science club members on trip to the Everglades for ‘a day in the field’ specifically to find and collect specimens of flora native to our region. The students, a group of ten sixth graders, ranging from ten to twelve years of age, went on this educational trip Wednesday morning and were to return that afternoon. Miss Sullivan and her class had, according to a school spokesperson, an uneventful day of searching and observing wildlife. Counts were taken of all persons at different times during the day. All children were at those times accounted for.

As time for loading the school bus and heading back to school approached, there were two students, a girl aged ten and a boy aged eleven, were missing. Miss Sullivan called for help from the bus driver’s cellular phone at approximately two PM Wednesday afternoon stating that a search of the outlined exploring area had turned up nothing on the missing pair. A Search and Rescue squad out of the Wildlife Conservation office was immediately dispatched and parents were notified. Searchers found little evidence to go on and had to halt searching as night fell on the gathered parents and school officials.

The search resumed this morning (Thursday) at daybreak. At this time, there is nothing more to report as nothing has turned up on the missing children (whose names are still being withheld until the search and investigation are concluded).

Staff Reporter