A missing 8-year-old Northwest Baltimore boy was found alive and well after getting separated from his family for more than 12 hours while visiting a cave in northern Arizona’s Coconino National Forest.
Park rangers, law enforcement officers and more than 100 volunteers from around the country worked together to find Tzion Maron, who went missing by the opening of the Lava River Caves near Flagstaff on Wednesday, Aug. 20, during a torrential downpour.
Family members immediately called the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office when unable to find Tzion. Deputies and search and rescue crews searched throughout the night in the driving rain and frigid cold.
Among the volunteers who searched for Tzion and found him the following day were 14 members of Chaverim of Rockland County, New York, who flew in to Arizona due to a family association. The group found Maron “sleeping next to a tree,” Isaac Kliknick, a volunteer for the community-based emergency service, told KNXV-TV (ABC 15) in Phoenix.
Tzion is reportedly in stable condition and in good spirits, and was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for an examination.
“We showed up, we came. Everyone stopped, dropped, whatever it was to make sure we brought the child home safely,” Kliknick said.
Also among the searchers were members of Baltimore Shomrim, Chaverim of Baltimore and Hatzalah of Baltimore.
Rabbi Dovie Shapiro of Chabad of Flagstaff told ABC 15 that he was proud to see how the national Jewish community rallied to search for Tzion, whose mother Rivka teaches Jewish history in the high school at the Bais Yaakov School for Girls.
“When someone is in need, you feel like it’s your own child, your own family and you want to do something to be a part of it,” he said. “We’re all so thankful to God to be able to celebrate with them.”
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