When Prestonsburg, Kentucky, firefighter Michael Tussey heard some crying that turned out to be little Kenneth Howard, he shouted, "Everybody shut up."The toddler was found and rescued Wednesday afternoon after three days of anguish for his family and the rural Eastern Kentucky community where they reside.Rescue team members gathered Thursday afternoon to relive the search, express relief at the outcome and hear from the guy who heard the cry."I was bawlin' like a baby. I'm not going to lie," Tussey said as the rest of the rescue team echoed his sentiment. "When you come through the thick terrain that we just went through and you pop up and all you see is a little blond head with blue eyes that you expected not to be alive and he was talking, screaming at you, that's something that hits the heart."From Sunday evening to Wednesday afternoon, a search team used dogs, a drone, a chopper, off-road vehicles and foot power in a desperate search for the boy.They concentrated their search in roughly a quarter-mile area of steep terrain where wild animals roam.Chief John May, of Wolfe County Search and Rescue, underscored the danger that was all around the boy for three nights."You know, an infant crying is actually a draw to wild animals. So just very fortunate that a bear, a coyote or a bobcat, something along those lines did not hear him crying," said May.It was 38 degrees the first night of the search.The child, not yet 2 years old, was clad in a T-shirt, sweat pants and sandals.The brutal truth of a third search day was that they were not expecting to find him alive. That made the outcome that much sweeter.May explained in detail how a computer program was used to help identify the area where the boy would most likely be found.He and others are trained about what's known as lost person behavior.Children under 3 who go missing are normally found within a quarter-mile from where they were last seen.The child had scampered into a wooded area behind his home in Magoffin County.They had scoured 300 acres. The boy was located about a quarter-mile from his home.It took 67 hours of anguish and determination to finally find him.Chief May noted at the boy's age, toddlers don't understand they're lost and tend to wander.He said they can be attracted by a duck or a bumblebee, some object of childhood wonder.The sound of his cry was one of those moments that could have been easily missed in the deep mountainous terrain of Eastern Kentucky.Chris Hecker, of Emergency Management, said, "That was a godsend because we had had many crews up there, had walked in that same area and probably walked right by him."Hecker witnessed the reunion with the boy's mother."She was crying and happy and basically climbed on top of him on the gurney and was hugging him and kissing him."It was surprising to the rescuers that a 22-month-old got up some of the hills.They got an IV in him and marveled at how unbothered he seemed to be.His parents are with him at a hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. We were told he was doing exceptionally well for what he has been through. He was eating solid food Thursday and will likely be home again in a day or so.Police are keeping the investigation open but mostly as a matter of course.They stressed there is nothing they've found to indicate any criminality or negligence involved in the way the boy wandered off.They are greatly relieved at the outcome of what's regarded by some as an Eastern Kentucky miracle.