From Mark Latti, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife:
FORT FAIRFIELD, Maine — The Maine Warden Service and others continue to search for 3 year-old Alexandra Wright, age 3 of Fort Fairfield, who was reported missing just after noontime on April 25. The search is focused on a section of the Aroostook River in Fort Fairfield behind their apartment on Main Street.
Searchers are concentrating on a two-mile stretch of the river in Fort Fairfield east to the Canadian Border. Yesterday, searchers found a boot that was identified as belonging to Alexandra. That boot was found approximately 500 feet down river from the apartment. Later in the evening, a matching boot was found approximately one mile downriver.
Game Wardens, Maine Forest Service, Maine State Police, Border Patrol, local police and rescue personnel along with volunteers will be searching today. Plans are to continue an intensive ground search along the river banks, search the river by boat and by airplane, and sent divers into various areas of the rivers. The warden service will have five boats and an airplane on scene today.
There are nine Game Warden divers there today, and seven other divers from the Maine State Police and the Maine Marine Patrol. Divers are set to start searching around 8:00, and will focus on some of the eddies in the river.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police are searching areas of the river on the Canadian side.
The river currently is flooded, flowing at 40,000 cubic feet per second, and the water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, with ice and debris floating downriver.
The search began yesterday just after noontime when Alexandra’s mother stated that she had left Alexandra in a room unattended for a moment around noontime, and when she got back to the room where Alexandra was left, a sliding glass door was open, leading to the river. She immediately called 911.
A boot was found at the river and the mother identified it as belonging to Alexandra.
The search is focused on a two mile section of the flood-swollen Aroostook River in Fort Fairfield.
Tom Remington
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