A teenager remains missing in Victoria's Yarra Ranges, with emergency crews combing dense bushland in their search for him.
William Wall, 14, left his Launching Place home before 7am on Tuesday to go for his daily walk in the Yarra Ranges.William's father was emotional on Wednesday as he thanked the search effort."The police, the SES are doing a top job, and people are getting out there and heaps of his mates and his brother's mates are just all over the place.""This is really out of the ordinary," he said.The local weather deteriorated on Wednesday, with rain falling.
Earlier on Wednesday, Inspector Jason Goddard said search organisers were trying to work out how to factor in the state's coronavirus restrictions. "We live in different times. We have to be very conscious of the COVID overlay with all this planning," he told 3AW radio. The 14-year-old, who has high functioning autism, went missing in Melbourne's Yarra Ranges, sparking an emergency search.The air and ground search involves police, including some on horseback, as well as the State Emergency Service and Bush Search and Rescue.
Searchers have been concentrating on the Warburton Rail Trail, which runs about 40km from Lilydale to Warburton and covers difficult terrain, and the O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail above Warburton.His family said he was wearing a dark hooded jumper, dark-coloured track pants, black runners and had a CamelBak hydration backpack.
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