SHANDAKEN – A six-year-old New Jersey girl is safe after wandering away from her family’s seasonal home in the Town of Shandaken. Six hours later, Migumi Tamura was found by a search party about a mile from where she was last seen. 

Migumi was located near a creek bed along Lower Birch Creek Road by the searchers under the direction of state forest rangers.

The child was in good health and suffered only from minor scrapes to her legs and arms. She was treated at the scene by members of the Shandaken Ambulance and returned to her mother, Misa Tamura of Ridgewood, NJ.

A number of agencies participated in the search for the little girl, including State Police, Ulster County Sheriff’s Office, Shandaken Police, EnCon Police, state forest rangers, Belleayre Mountain staff, Shandaken Ambulance, Ulster County Bureau of Fire, and fire departments from Pine Hill, Big Indian, Phoenicia, Arkville, Margaretville and Fleishmann’s.

The rescue in Ulster County came one day after a 91-year-old man went missing, but was found alive in the woods near Woodridge in Sullivan County,