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Arizona park rangers' dramatic rescue of missing boy who spent night alone in wilderness after getting separated from his family

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Park rangers and more than 100 volunteers worked together to find a missing eight-year-old Maryland boy who got separated from his family while visiting a cave in Arizona

Tzion Maron, of Baltimore, went missing near the opening of the Lava River Caves near Flagstaff on Wednesday after his family was unable to locate him in the immediate area, prompting search and rescue crews to be called around 6:15pm. 

Hundreds of volunteers - including 14 members of the Chaverim of Rockland County, New York, who flew in to help - searched for the Jewish boy, who was found on Thursday. 

Search teams looked for Maron throughout Wednesday night, despite the rainy weather, and they worried the boy would get hypothermia due to the weather. 

The Rockland group found Maron 'sleeping next to a tree,' Chaverim of Rockland volunteer Isaac Kliknick told ABC 15

Dramatic photos show the group wrapping the boy in a silver blanket as they gathered around him after a long night of searching. 

Tzion Maron, of Baltimore, went missing near the opening of the Lava River Caves near Flagstaff on Wednesday after his family was unable to locate him in the immediate area, prompting search and rescue crews to be called around 6:15pm

Tzion Maron, of Baltimore, went missing near the opening of the Lava River Caves near Flagstaff on Wednesday after his family was unable to locate him in the immediate area, prompting search and rescue crews to be called around 6:15pm

Search teams looked for Maron throughout Wednesday night, despite the rainy weather, and they worried the boy would get hypothermia due to the weather

 Search teams looked for Maron throughout Wednesday night, despite the rainy weather, and they worried the boy would get hypothermia due to the weather

The Rockland group found Maron 'sleeping next to a tree.' Dramatic photos show the group wrapping the boy in a silver blanket as they gathered around him after a long night of searching

The Rockland group found Maron 'sleeping next to a tree.' Dramatic photos show the group wrapping the boy in a silver blanket as they gathered around him after a long night of searching 

He was taken to the hospital for a check-up. 

'We showed up, we came. Everyone stopped, dropped, whatever it was to make sure we brought the child home safely,' Kliknick told ABC 15. 

The Rockland group flew out after some of Maron's extended family, who live in the area, contacted the organization, according to WMAR 2.  

Dozens of groups volunteered to help find Maron, including Baltimore Shomrim, Chaverim of Baltimore, and Hatzalah of Baltimore, and more. 

Chabad of Flagstaff Rabbi Dovie Shapiro was proud to see how the Jewish community showed up for little Maron, telling ABC 15: '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.' 

Hundreds of volunteers - including 14 members of the Chaverim of Rockland County, New York, who flew in to help - searched for the Jewish boy, who was found on Thursday

Hundreds of volunteers - including 14 members of the Chaverim of Rockland County, New York, who flew in to help - searched for the Jewish boy, who was found on Thursday

Chabad of Flagstaff Rabbi Dovie Shapiro was proud to see how the Jewish community

Chabad of Flagstaff Rabbi Dovie Shapiro was proud to see how the Jewish community

Shapiro said the family is 'beyond themselves' and very 'grateful' the young boy was found safe. 

'We're all so thankful to God to be able to celebrate with them,' the rabbi said. 

Another eight-year-old boy, Canyon Hartley, also went missing Thursday morning near a campsite in Grand Canyon, according to ABC 15. 

He was found hours later safe. 

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