Firefighter's Knack for "Thinking Like a Kid" Saves Little Boy, Inspires Students

Think like a kid.

It's a skill that multi-talented firefighter Joseph Garces repeatedly has put to positive use.

Last October, on a day off, Garces was checking in on Facebook when he saw a post about a missing 4-year-old boy who had wandered off from his uncle's Santa Paula home at the edge of wilderness and was lost in a canyon.

Garces recognized the area and, living only a couple miles away, grabbed his boots and brush coat and joined the search.

It was a scorching hot day and young Anthony did not have any water, making it even more urgent to locate him.

Garces did.

He found Anthony (pictured below) in the shade of bushes along the bank of a dry river bed.

"We got down to the river bottom," Garces later said when asked the secret of his successful searching technique. "I just followed the path I thought a kid would take."

Thinking like a kid achieved results, as it had in Garces' other careers as an English teacher and author of children's books.
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Never forget the kid in you. You never know when it will come in handy.