A heartwarming video recently went viral showing a successful search operation for a 5-year-old girl in Florida.

Police used drones and thermal imaging cameras to track the girl in the marshy area and record the moment she was discovered.

Police in Hillsborough County, Florida, released video footage of a five-year-old girl with autism. Police found the girl less than an hour after she was reported missing.

According to media reports, the girl got lost and wandered into a dangerous area of the swamp. There, police first tracked her using thermal imaging cameras and soon found him in knee-deep water. The girl was handed over to her family in good health.

Watch the thrilling moment police found a missing 5-year-old girl in a swamp and called off the search.