A Nederland senior citizen has been found safe after being missing for about a day.

Louisiana State Police notified Nederland Police Department that they had located Thomas Collins around 1:15 a.m. Wednesday. Collins was stopped in Rapides Parish near Alexandria, La.

Collins’ family went to Louisiana and brought him back to town, NPD Assistant Chief Gary Porter said.

NPS issued the Silver Alert for Collins shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday. Collins, 84, suffers from dementia due to a brain injury and is the father of Nederland Fire Chief Gary Collins.

Chief Collins last spoke with his father around 4 p.m. Monday and had went to check on him around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and noticed his father and his father’s truck were missing from his home in the 200 block of South Fourth Street.

This was cause for a red flag because his family had taken his keys.