Arcadia News

Three year old Joshua Childers has been upgraded to good condition at the Jefferson Regional Medical center in Crystal City, Missouri after a three day ordeal in the woods.

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Little Joshua Childers survived chilly nights, ponds and creeks, hills and boulders, ticks, bears, mountain lions and snakes in his two days of wandering the Missouri woods.

Searchers are now into their third day of looking for Childers, a 3-year-old who wandered away from his family's home near Arcadia, Mo .

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Joshua Childers was reported missing around 12:30 p.m. Monday near Arcadia. He slipped out the back door of his home and hasn't been seen since.

Federal, state and Iron County investigators are looking for the person believed to have started a fire at the Arcadia Valley Assembly of God in rural Arcadia.