10:18PM EST: A search for two missing Bochurim in the Catskills, Boruch Hashem ended safely on Friday night.

Sources tell YWN that Hatzolah was contacted on Friday night to respond to Camp Binyan Dovid in Mountaindale, after two campers who went hiking on Friday afternoon, did not return after Shabbos started.

Catskills Hatzolah Coordinator Boruch Gibs, Special Assistant to the Superintendent of the New York State Police Rabbi Bernard Freilich, and Misaskim Search & Rescue units gathered numerous resources to start a search for the missing boys.

Fallsburg Police Chief Simmy Williams, NY State Forest Rangers, Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff, along with Captain Thomas Boylan from the State Police Liberty Barracks mobilized their officers, along with K9 dogs, and started searching.

Many Hatzolah members assisted in the search as well, as more than 50 volunteers from the Mountaindale Fire Department.

At approximately 10:30PM, the two boys were found as they were exiting the heavily wooded area onto a road – miles from where they started from.

They were Boruch Hashem not injured, and were found to be in healthy condition.

(Yehuda Drudgestein – YWN)