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An Ontonagon County man is recovering after he was found following an overnight search.
66-year-old Carl Thomas Kettunen of Trout Creek was found alive Friday afternoon with his off-road vehicle on top of him.
The search began Thursday night after Kettunen was reported missing.
He was last seen at dinner at about 6pm when caregivers heard him leave his home on his Honda rancher off-road vehicle.
Kettunen reportedly suffers from serious health conditions.
After caregivers reported him missing, the search got under way at about 10:30 p.m. with Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers, local firefighters and volunteers.
Search efforts continued throughout the night. Significant rainfall occurring after Kettunen left obscured tracks from his ORV.
On Friday, more than a dozen search teams were looking for Kettunen, led by the DNR with help from Superior Search and Rescue, the Ontonagon County Sheriff’s Office, Michigan State Police, MI-TRALE and local volunteers from Trout Creek and Kenton.
A Civil Air Patrol plane was in the air and two additional aircraft were on stand-by, including a DNR plane.
