SANTEE, Calif. (KSWB) – Authorities on Tuesday released a rescue video of a missing 11-year-old boy with autism who had wandered onto a freeway last month in Santee, California.

On March 9, around 4:30 p.m., authorities received a report of the boy going missing from a supermarket, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office said.

The child, who is non-verbal, was with his family when he ran out of the store, according to the reporting party.

When his family couldn’t find him, they contacted 911.

Deputies, along with the department’s helicopter, began making announcements to advise the public about the missing child.

Off-duty Sheriff’s Dispatcher Shiloh Corbert was driving home from work around 5:15 p.m. when she saw someone matching the missing child’s description running along Mast Boulevard near the State Route 52 on-ramp.

Corbet told the Sheriff’s Communications Center that she noticed the child running up the freeway on-ramp, stopped her car and followed the child.

When Corbet got to the freeway’s shoulder, the child had crossed the westbound lanes of SR-52 and was standing in the center divider, according to law enforcement.

Corbet called to the child by his name to stay where he was for his own safety while informing an on-duty sheriff’s dispatcher supervisor who was sending deputies to the scene.

Upon arrival, authorities parked on the street below the SR-52 overpass and saw the child at the top of the steep concrete embankment.

When deputies tried to contact him, the child moved away from them and went toward the center divider guardrail.

Authorities ran up the embankment to try and stop him, but the child hopped the guardrail and started running along the busy freeway.

Deputies Cody Green and Michael Moser then decided to jump over the guardrail and run toward the child. The deputies were able to remove the child from the freeway and reunite him with his family.

No one was hurt during the incident.

“The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office wants to thank Sheriff’s Dispatcher Shiloh Corbet, Deputies Cody Green and Michael Moser, as well as the Santee Sheriff’s Station, Lakeside Sheriff’s Substation, Sheriff’s ASTREA, Sheriff’s Communications Center and several Good Samaritans, for working together to find the missing child and getting him to safety,” the sheriff’s office said.