BRUNSWICK — Brunswick police and a Topsham police dog searched the area around Birch Meadow Road for just more than an hour Wednesday afternoon before they were able to locate an 81-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease who apparently wandered away from her home earlier in the afternoon.
The woman’s husband notified police at 4:11 p.m. that he had noticed his wife was gone. Eight Brunswick officers started to search the area, off McKeen Street near the intersection of Church Road.
After 15 minutes, police called for assistance from Topsham Police Officer Robert Ramsay and his tracking dog, Marco, and the search continued from house to house, Deputy Chief Marc Hagan of the Brunswick Police Department said today.
Searchers found the uninjured woman more than an hour after the search began, in an unoccupied Palmer Street home — not far from Birch Meadow — that had been left unlocked, according to Hagan.
“We’re just happy that it turned out OK and that nobody was injured,” Hagan said.
bbrogan@timesrecord.com
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