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Retired fire chief missing for 7 days found alive

Chief Donald Farrell, 70, fell into a ditch while out for a morning walk; he survived on rainwater and is doing OK

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CALEDONIA, N.Y. — A happy ending in the massive, weeklong search for 70-year old Donald Farrell who had been missing since Sunday.

Farrell was found Sunday morning alive. “Everybody else has been looking for him and I found him,” Stephen Linder said, after finding his older cousin, Farrell.

Linder had been looking for his cousin, on his own, all week. He says it was hunch that led him back out into one of his fields that he hadn’t checked, near the Genesee River where he heard somebody yelling.

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