A Connecticut State Police bloodhound missing after being involved in the search for a man in Danbury has been found safe.  K9 Texas was part of a search party Wednesday evening in the Wooster Mountain-Sugar Hollow Road area.  A handler lost his footing on the steep terrain and dropped the 15-foot leash connecting the trooper to Texas.  The dog continued tracking up the ledge, but when the trooper reached the top of the hill, Texas was nowhere in sight.

(Photo: Mayor Boughton)

Mayor Mark Boughton says the dog was found shortly before 10:30 this morning, tangled on a fence.  He did not have information on the location of where K9 Texas was found.  Boughton noted that K9 Texas looked unharmed, just cold. 

A Monroe man who works for Homeland Security, a former K9 handler, was one of the volunteers.  He used his ATV and located K9 Texas.

Over 100 volunteers combed the woods along side public safety personnel from the Connecticut and New York.  A helicopter from the Department of Homeland Security was searching from above, using heat-seeking technology.

Another bloodhound, Zeus, located the missing man, who was brought safely out of the woods Wednesday night.