2-Year-Old Safe and Sound Asleep When Father’s Call Wakes Her to End Search

A 2-year-old girl who was the subject of a major search by sheriff’s deputies and others Saturday was found near her rural Orange County home a few hours after she had wandered off.

Tiffany Olson, whose family lives in an unincorporated area on the edge of the Cleveland National Forest, was found at 3:50 p.m. Saturday at the bottom of a ravine about 500 yards behind her home, a Sheriff’s Department spokesman said.

Lt. Rich Paddock said Tiffany’s father, Craig Olson, 37, discovered his daughter missing about 11:50 a.m. The little girl had apparently wandered away from her home in the 17100 block of Santiago Canyon Road and tumbled into the ravine, becoming stuck in a stand of bamboo trees at the bottom.

Tiffany then fell asleep, Paddock said, awakening when she heard her father call out her name. She answered and was rescued, ending a search that included the efforts of dozens of sheriff’s deputies, Orange County firefighters and California Highway Patrol officers.

“She’s safe at home now,” Paddock said.