Exhaustion is setting in as more and more resources arrived on Friday in southwestern Alberta, where the search for a missing six-year-old Lethbridge boy is into its sixth day.

However, during the daily media update, Adam Kennedy of Alberta Search and Rescue said that searchers are not giving up hope that Darius Macdougall will be found alive.

“It’s not slowing down at any point over the weekend,” said Kennedy. “It’s actually quite the opposite. It’s being ramped up over the weekend.

“We anticipate seeing more SAR (search and rescue) volunteers available and expect to see those numbers bolstered over the weekend.”

There are currently about 120 people involved in the ground search for Macdougall, who went missing Sunday while on a camping trip with his family at Island Lake Campgr

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