"I opened my garage, went all around my house, you never know, looked everywhere in my back yard.
And then after that I went out with the search," said Heidi Iyok, a neighbor.
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Community members kept outdoor lighting illuminated through the night to assist search teams.
"I've never seen this block brighter than this time," said Pharryll Elad, a neighbor.
Volunteers from neighboring towns also arrived, using strategies suggested by educators to help locate the nonverbal child.
"I have mom syndrome and I just felt worried and concerned and felt like the more people there are, the more we could help," said Stephanie Snyder, a volunteer.
Search groups focused on wooded areas while playing the child's favorite nursery rhyme from their phones.
"A teacher, a family teacher stopped us, she told us to play 'Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star' on our phones.
She gave us a Gatorade if we saw him," said Amanda Varin, a volunteer.
Local families emphasized that the safety of the missing boy was a shared responsibility.
"Because he could be my child," said Iyok.
"He could be anybody's child. We have to come out as a community and look for him.
We cannot let it go," she added.
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A law enforcement source told the Times Union that while the circumstances are unusual, there is currently no indication of criminality, and the investigation remains ongoing.
