VIDEO: Mass. State Police Air Wing locates suicidal man in woods during frigid temperature

On December 29, just before 10:00 p.m., Troopers Kevin Doyle and Eric Fairchild, who are assigned to the State Police Air Wing, were monitoring a search in Hatfield, where Hatfield Police and troopers assigned to the State Police Northampton Barracks were searching 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. The man was not dressed for the zero degree weather.

Troopers Fairchild and Doyle, located the man in the woods using the helicopters FLIR, and guided ground officers and troopers to the man. 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.

The man was guided out of the woods and transported to a local hospital and treated for exposure. Hatfield Police will handle the arrest once he is released from the hospital.