{"id":1233334,"date":"2023-06-07T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1233334"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:54:42","slug":"tyler-pd-locates-missing-man-with-dementia-with-project-lifesaver-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1233334","title":{"rendered":"Tyler PD locates missing man with dementia with Project Lifesaver bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/Alzheimers-Alliance-of-Smith-County-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-768638\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ernest Blanton of Tyler went missing Sunday night after he walked into some woods. However, Ernest has dementia. He has a Project Lifesaver bracelet from the Alzheimer&#8217;s Alliance of Smith County. The radio tracking bracelet is waterproof. So, when Ernest was missed, his wife called the Tyler Police Department with his bracelets tracking number. And they located Mr. Blanton quickly. Claudia Blanton said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are very thankful to have the bracelet. We would be a loss without it..  To me it is a Godsend. I appreciate Tyler Police Department.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to the National Alzheimer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Association, the survival rates of dementia wanderers falls to about 34% after 24 hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ernest Blanton of Tyler went missing Sunday night after he walked into some woods. However, Ernest has dementia. He has a Project Lifesaver bracelet from the Alzheimer&#8217;s Alliance of Smith County. The radio tracking bracelet is waterproof. So, when Ernest was missed, his wife called the Tyler Police Department with his bracelets tracking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1233334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler PD locates missing man with dementia with Project Lifesaver bracelet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1233337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/Alzheimers-Alliance-of-Smith-County-150x150.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler PD locates missing man with dementia with Project Lifesaver bracelet","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 16:31:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/Alzheimers-Alliance-of-Smith-County-150x150.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler PD locates missing man with dementia with Project Lifesaver bracelet","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233335,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233334\/revisions\/1233335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}