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Nov. 1--The autistic teen hiker from West Virginia who was found after getting lost in the wilderness will get a Project Lifesaver International locator bracelet today.

The mother of Jacob Allen, 18, of Morgantown, W.Va., said Tuesday she is thrilled to be getting one of the wristwatch-size radio beacons. The device helps emergency agencies trained by the Chesapeake-based search-and-rescue group find a missing person Link necklace.

"We have been looking for something for a long time," Karen Allen said from

her home. "I figured the technology was out there somewhere but we couldn't find it."

A West Virginia law enforcement agency that recently joined Project Lifesaver and a Pittsburgh-based autism group donated the device and waived the monthly fee for the service.

Jacob Allen got lost two weeks ago while he was on a hiking trail with his family in West Virginia's Dolly Sods Wilderness Area.

Hundreds of volunteers and trained professionals looked for him for days. The search was complicated by the fact that he does not speak.

He was found four days later, less than one mile from where he walked off the valentines jewelry.

During that time, deputies from the Monongalia County Sheriff's Department were being trained in how to use the radio signal tracking device. Around the same period, a searcher from Pittsburgh told Karen Allen about Project Lifesaver.

"It's just another miracle," she said about finding her son alive and learning about the tracking device.

Project Lifesaver has 600 member agencies across North America.

Since 1999, the non profit

has rescued more than 1,400 adults with medical conditions such as Alzheimer's and dementia, and children with special needs.

According to the group, it takes an average of 30 minutes to find a missing

person wearing a locator Heart Link lariat.

The searches are done on foot and from the air.

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