Missing woman found

By mark 　

Project Lifesaver – is one of the major initiatives of the Future of Middleboro Trust. It supplies equipment and training that helps emergency responders to locate someone who has wandered off. Several Middleboro residents have been supplied with the locater bracelets that can be tracked.

We are relieved and gratified that the device has helped find a woman on Friday Oct 7:


Project Life Saver’s GPS system was instrumental in locating an elderly woman who wandered from her home early Friday morning.

Police Chief Bruce D. Gates said the woman was reported missing from her Rocky Meadow Street home at 3 a.m.

Sgt. Joseph M. Perkins scrambled the State Police air wing and called in officer Jerry J. Donahue and his dog, Caro, while officers Mark E. Meaney, Richard Harvey and Nathan J. Ferbert began searching.

Gates said Project Lifesaver activated a tracking device the woman was wearing on a bracelet and within 90 minutes she was found a few houses away, sitting in a neighbor’s van in her nightgown and shivering, Gates said.

Gates said an ambulance took her to Jordan Hospital in Plymouth to be checked.

Project Life Saver was donated to the town by the Future of Middleboro Trust.

Gates said several residents wear the bracelets for emergency situations. Gates said Ed Beaulieu, a trustee, raised the money by selling a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle of the Town Hall.

“It worked great and did what it was designed to do,” Gates said of the bracelet.
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