The chance to find a little boy who was lost in the outback fades as family and seekers holding the hope that he has found shelter and wait to be saved.
Defense personnel became a member of the search for the four -year -old who was not seen for almost a week.
Augustus, known as Gus, was missing on Saturday afternoon in his family’s sheep station in the remote South Australian Mid-North.
The only trace of the toddler is a small footprint in the dirt at about 500 meters from the Homestead family, which brought hope, but the police now admit that it could “have been a week”.
“A four -year -old boy, they just don’t disappear in thin air,” said Chief Inspector Mark Syrus on Thursday.
“They must be somewhere, so it is our job to try to find which way he is gone and as soon as we find those little instructions, it gives us a bit of an idea.”
Searchers changed their efforts to the house after the footprint, but no further indications were found about where Gus was going to be.
“Unfortunately we have found nothing at all, so we go back to the search area and we just hope we can find it,” said Syrus.
The search was expanded when almost 50 Australian Defense Force staff participated in the operation.
The extensive search for the missing boy has involved SES volunteers on Trailbikes, ATVs, dogs and a drone. Source: Delivered / Channel seven
Only at burning temperatures and without food or water, is the best thing of the authorities that Gus crawled in shelter and wait to be saved from the building near Yunta, about 300 km north of Adelaide.
But hope fades and the police have prepared the family the worst when the search shifts from a rescue to a recovery operation.
“Hopefully he hangs there and he lives, but we are (are) in the recovery phase,” said Syrus.
“The fact that he has been away for more than 100 hours, six days, that is a long time for a young boy to be in the elements.”
The lack of evidence has encouraged the police to extend the search area to a circumference of 2.5 km around the house “to areas with a greater probability”.
“We’re going to walk in the coming days, we will still have the police helicopter, we will still let the assembly continue during the search, hoping that Gus crawled somewhere in a hole and he is still there,” Syrus said.
The desperate family of the toddler spoke earlier this week and said that they “struggled to understand what happened” with the young person.
The adventurous boy played in the sand near the Homestead family when he disappeared.
Extensive searches with the state volunteers, volunteers on trail bikes, full site vehicles, dogs and a drone have been carried out and helicopters, police divers and mounted officers have been involved.
Police cadets, SES – volunteers, an Aboriginal tracker and a large number of community and family members have strengthened the search effort.
The police have said that they do not believe that the disappearance is suspected.
Gus has long, blonde, curly hair and was last seen in a gray sunscreen, a blue T-shirt with a yellow minion on the front, light gray long pants and boots.
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