Divers join Waterville search for missing Maine toddler Ayla Reynolds
Dive teams from the Maine Warden Service and the Maine State Police hit the water at about 9 this morning in the continuing search for a toddler missing since last month.
The effort is expected to last into the afternoon, as the two dive teams search for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds in a half-mile stretch of the Kennebec River between the Hathaway Creative Center and the Carter Memorial Bridge in Waterville.
Ayla was last seen Dec. 16 at her father’s home on Violette Avenue in Waterville, about a mile from where the dive teams are conducting their search.
Though other waterways have been drained to find the toddler, this is the first time that divers have been called in during the nearly four-week long search. Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said that if today’s search is fruitless, dive teams could be used again, though he did not say what other waterways might be searched.
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