{"id":573687,"date":"2023-05-09T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/8-year-old-missing-for-2-days-found-safe-under-a-log-in-a-michigan-state-park\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:38:00","slug":"8-year-old-missing-for-2-days-found-safe-under-a-log-in-a-michigan-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/8-year-old-missing-for-2-days-found-safe-under-a-log-in-a-michigan-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"#8-year-old missing for 2 days found safe under a log in a Michigan state park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An 8-year-old boy survived for two full days in a Michigan state park after he disapp<\/a>eared while collecting firewood Saturday on a family camping trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Search party volunteers found 8-year-old Nante Niemi at 1:30 p.m. local time on Monday, and the boy has since been reunited with his family, according to the Michigan State Police.<\/p>\n

Niemi likely got lost while gathering firewood near his family\u2019s campsite in Michigan\u2019s Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, according to a press release from the Michigan State Police. Last seen around 1 p.m. on Saturday, Niemi was rescued roughly two miles from his campsite after 48 hours on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had braved the elements by taking shelter under a log where he was ultimately found,\u201d the press release noted.<\/p>\n

Eli Talsma, an 18-year-old who aided in the rescue, told ABC News<\/a> that Niemi survived for two days without eating or drinking anything.<\/p>\n

Talsma said Niemi gathered branches and leaves to cover himself at night. When he saw a helicopter buzzing overhead at one point, Niemi attempted to signal to it, but the pilot appeared not to see him, according to Talsma.<\/p>\n

Talsma said Niemi avoided drinking the water in the forest, fearing getting sick. However, he \u201cate\u201d a few handfuls of snow \u2013 his only sustenance over the two-day period, said Talsma.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you didn\u2019t know he was in the woods for two days, you wouldn\u2019t know,\u201d Talsma said about the moment rescuers found Niemi under a log.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, he was just normal. Nante was just walking around. He was talking. He was asking questions. He said he wasn\u2019t hungry,” Talsma said. “He was perfectly fine, but we did give him a Cliff Bar and a banana and some water.”<\/p>\n

Michelle Robinson, a Michigan State Police spokeswoman, said she did not know how the boy survived alone, but said Niemi was \u201cin good health and reunited with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over 150 search and rescue personnel participated in the search for Niemi, which covered 40 square miles of a remote and hilly portion of Michigan\u2019s upper peninsula. Volunteers from Michigan and Wisconsin also aided in the successful search.<\/p>\n

Steve Lombardo, the elementary school principal of the Hurley School District in Wisconsin, said the announcement about Niemi\u2019s safe rescue prompted cheers through the K-12 school building, which had been on edge since the second-grader’s disappearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe announced it to the entire school, and as my colleague said, it was like being at a big football game<\/a> with our winning touchdown being scored,\u201d Lombardo told ABC News. \u201cThe entire school lit up in cheers, and everybody was just relieved and thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An 8-year-old boy survived for two full days in a Michigan state park after he disappeared while collecting firewood Saturday on a family camping trip. Search party volunteers found 8-year-old Nante Niemi at 1:30 p.m. local time on Monday, and the boy has since been reunited with his family, according to the Michigan State Police….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/US\/nante-niemi-1-ht-gmh-230508_1683582725646_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}