Annelie and Joanne Graham speak to The Ross-Shire Journal about the Evanton community helping to find a missing boy
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00:00I was the one that was at Fyrish car park and I met the mum of the boy that went missing
00:07and she was quite distressed, she said that she'd lost her seven-year-old boy up on Fyrish
00:13on the way up.
00:15So I didn't get lots of details off her but I went off having a look because I do lots
00:20of running up there and I came across the dad that was coming down who had also been
00:25looking for the boy and it was at that point I found out he'd actually been missing for
00:31about two hours already.
00:34So I gave my mum a ring because I thought we need to call somebody, maybe the police
00:40and also I thought it would be a good idea to put it on the We Are Edmonton page because
00:43it is quite a close-knit community and I thought that's a good way to spread the word, maybe
00:47some people can come help but the response was pretty massive.
00:52So she rang me after the police had been contacted saying it's a Lithuanian tourist
01:00had lost their seven-year-old on Fyrish and within half an hour there were just so many
01:07people that came out, they dropped everything and came out from far and wide, not just from
01:11Edmonton, the car park was full, all the emergency services came, so it was just an amazing response
01:20but it was a good, I mean in total the boy was missing for about four hours, so it's
01:27quite a long time and I think it was the police officer that found him, but yeah the response
01:32was just, it was instant and people just went out of their way to come and help find him
01:39and the hill was basically absolutely covered in people.
01:42The social media actually did some good.