Toddlers safe after 26 hours in wilderness

A PAIR of two-year-olds who wandered out of a holiday home and into the Australian wilderness were found safe yesterday — scratched and dirty but unhurt — after spending more than 24 hours outdoors.

A volunteer — one of hundreds who took part in the search south of the Western Australia state capital of Perth — found them two miles from the home where Dakota Vincent and Trista Foley were staying with their parents when they disappeared.

“I heard what I thought was human voices and couldn’t believe my ears,” said Merrilyn Hutton, who found the children. “I moved towards the sound ... then standing beside the scrub was a little red head and then a little white head popped up too.