Thermal imaging drone helps find elderly man with dementia lost in Malibu The 78-year-old man left his residence to retrieve his mail, but failed to return, prompting a missing persons call.
Malibu Search and Rescue shared photos of the operation on X, including the grainy gray screen with a red image of the man lying in the brush.
Officers swiftly initiated a search and rescue operation, broadcasting a description of the missing man over the radio and entering his information into the National Crime Information Centermissing persons database.
An elderly man with dementia who went missing in Malibu, California, was found thanks to thermal imaging technology attached to a drone.
“Upon arriving on scene, the rescuers observed the missing man suffering from a cold related illness, confused and unable to walk,” the department said in an online post.
