Vermont, Flash flood
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Crews escorted the missing children off Camel’s Hump mountain in Vermont early Friday to be reunited with their families.
This year's flash floods were confined to the northeastern part of the state. They were far less catastrophic than those of the previous two years.
Two boys, aged 14 and 11, and a 12-year-old girl didn’t return from their hike off Duxbury Road in Bolton on July 10
Three children who went missing during a hike near Camels Hump, VT were found safe and uninjured early Friday morning, authorities said.
Camp personnel called State Police at 6:20 p.m. on Thursday after the children didn’t return from what was supposed to be a 30-minute hike, authorities said.
Vermont Governor Phil Scott was in Lyndonville, in the state’s Northeast Kingdom, on Wednesday to mark the anniversaries of flooding in the state.
For residents of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, the last two years have been defined by relentless rainfall and catastrophic flooding, leaving homes and businesses underwater, roads destroyed, and communities battered.
"Talk about how your community needs to be reshaped and how you can practically and thoughtfully make those changes over time," Douglas Farnam said. "Because we can't snap our fingers and be flood resilient.
A Connecticut man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after he was found with multiple types of drugs and a gun in Vermont by agents patrolling near the Canadian border who later discovered he was wanted on a warrant charging him in a Hartford shooting.