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Missing Ellington Girl Found Safe

Heather Smith had been missing since Sunday morning, police said.

A teenage girl missing since Sunday morning was found around 9:30 a.m. Monday.

Heather Smith of Ellington was discovered by a hiker in a wooded area of Soapstone Mountain. The hiker called 911, and an ambulance transported Smith to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford.

Hundreds of volunteers had been searching for Smith since Sunday, when she crashed her car into a tree on Tree Top Road in Ellington and fled into the woods.

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