HATFIELD — A Massachusetts State Police Air Wing helicopter helped officers on the ground Friday night find a man in woods in Hatfield who had threatened to harm himself.
Hatfield Police and troopers assigned to the state police barracks in Northampton searched for “a man who had made threats against himself, then fled a residence into the woods. It was also learned that the man also had felony warrants for his arrest,” according to state police.
About 10 p.m. Friday, Troopers Kevin Doyle and Eric Fairchild, of the State Police Air Wing, were monitoring the ground search in Hatfield from a helicopter. Fairchild and Doyle used the helicopter’s infrared cameras to find the man in the woods and guided officers on the ground to him.
“When they located the man on the ground, he had covered himself with snow and was laying on the bank of a ice covered pond,” state police reported on social media.
State police said that after the man, who was not identified, was led out of the woods he was taken to an area hospital and treated for exposure. Hatfield Police, who could not be reached Saturday, were expected to arrest the man after he was released.