Steve Fines, of Fines Imaging, was among those trying to help find Ethan. Investigators said he used a drone with heat-seeking technology to find the missing boy — and he did. The drone spotted Ethan and Remington lying in a cornfield, located around a mile east of his home, around 1:50 a.m Wednesday.

“Ethan was cold but was otherwise in good health after being found,” the sheriff said.

Fines told WCCO-TV he “couldn’t go to bed knowing that I hadn’t done something” to help find Ethan. “[Searchers] were not walking to the site, they were running, you know. You could hear them breathing heavily and crashing through bush and through the cornfields and everything, and then there was a lot of yelling.”

The sheriff said what happened “was the epitome of a community caring for its own,” and said to “see the outpouring of support in such a short time period to come out and help find this boy and his dog is heartwarming.”

Brott said, “If not for that drone, I’m not sure we would have found him.” A state patrol helicopter and another thermal imaging drone from the Big Lake Police Department were also used in the search.

Ethan and Remington are the best of buds, his mother, Sheri Haus, said. Early Wednesday when he was found, Ethan was taken to a hospital to be checked, but he was doing OK.

(Excerpt from Fox News. Article by Nicole Darrah.)