The Yarmouth Police Department reported late Wednesday evening that two missing girls were found safe.
Police had been looking for the 11- and 12-year-old, who were reported missing after leaving Frank Harrison Middle School together at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Cumberland police said a tip from a resident led them to the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway tracks that parallel I-295 in Cumberland. The girls were found just off the tracks behind 121 Middle Road at 10 p.m. as winds increased, temperatures dropped and snow began to fall, police said.
The girls were evaluated by an EMS crew from the Cumberland Fire Department, then reunited with their parents.
The search involved police from Cumberland, Yarmouth, Falmouth, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife and the Cumberland County Regional Communications Center.
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