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

Valmar Thompson, age 91 of Edgecomb, lives alone at his house in Edgecomb, and has caregivers who are there each day. Yesterday, when one of the caregivers arrived at 10:00 a.m., Thompson was not there, yet the house and stove were still warm, indicating that 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 Sherriffs office, who contacted the Maine Warden Service.

Game Wardens and members of the Sheriff’s office and the Edgecomb Fire Department searched the area, and at approximately 5:40 p.m., Game Warden Robertson and K9 Storm located Thompson in the woods, disoriented, and sitting on a stone wall with one shoe missing. Game Wardens and other assisted getting 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 the Lincoln County Sherriff’s Office, the Edgecomb Fire Department and the Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service.

This release will be updated if any new information becomes available.