Ground search crews depart N.S. community where children went missing [Video]

A day after Nova Scotia RCMP announced it was scaling back the search for two missing children, the force’s command centre in a rural Pictou County community has been packed up and ground search crews have left the area.

Lily Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, have been missing since May 2, when police received a 911 call reporting that they had wandered away from their home on Gairloch Road in Lansdowne Station, roughly 25 kilometres southwest of New Glasgow.

Police announced Wednesday that after six days of scouring the heavily wooded areas surrounding the home, there was no sign of the children and it’s not likely they are alive.

Staff Sgt. Curtis MacKinnon told a news conference the active search was being “scaled back,” but the missing persons investigation would continue. 

“So rather than having the large presence here, the massive number of searchers on scene every day, searches will be based on information that comes in,” said MacKinnon.

“We’re …