K9 Storm and Game Warden Chad Robertson located a missing elderly Edgecomb man Thursday evening, Oct. 9 just as freezing temperatures started to set in. 

Valmar Thompson, 91, of Edgecomb has caregivers at his home each day. Thursday, when one of the caregivers arrived, Thompson was not there, yet the house and stove were still warm, indicating he was there recently. The caregiver was not alarmed, as Thompson often worked around his property during the day, but when he did not return, the caregiver called Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, who contacted the Maine Warden Service.

Game Wardens and members of the Sheriff’s Office and Edgecomb Fire Department searched the area and, at about 5:40 p.m., Game Warden Chad Robertson and K9 Storm located Thompson in the woods, disoriented, and sitting on a stone wall with one shoe missing. Game Wardens and others helped get Thompson out of the woods as his knee was hurting, and he was loaded onto an ATV, and brought out to a waiting ambulance where he was examined but not transported by emergency medical personnel, and then released to his family. 

The Maine Warden Service was assisted in this search by Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Edgecomb Fire Department and Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service.