The Brown County Sheriff is requesting assistance from the public for purchasing a drone for the Sheriffs office. Brown County Sheriff John Merchant said that last week, two boys were lost in a cornfield near Fairview. “With the aid of a drone, they could have been located in a more timely manner,” Sheriff Merchant said. “With high temperatures and humidity, dehydration could have set in within a short amount of time.” In the situation with the lost boys, Sheriff Merchant said a local farmer assisted and with information obtained from the dispatcher who stayed on the phone with the boys – keeping them calm and obtaining location info – and with Undersheriff Brian Guilliams, the situation was resolved without a bad outcome.
Source: hiawathaworldonline.com
