GREENWICH — Police have identified the boy who died Tuesday night after being buried in a snowbank in a lot off Rock Street. 
 
 Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said Wednesday, during a press conference, that Joshua J. Demarest, 13, and a seventh-grade student at Greenwich Central School, was pronounced dead at around 10 p.m. Tuesday, after he and a friend were dug out of the snow pile. 
 
 Bell said police began searching for the two boys after an older sister of one of the boys reported that they had not returned before dark, as was typical, and she was concerned. 
 
 Police found footprints leading to the lot, which is used by the village to dump snow after storm cleanups. The village does not own the lot, Bell said. Police dogs were brought to the lot and one of them alerted rescuers to the snow pile, Bell said. 
 
 That's when rescuers began digging. 
 
 "I bet they moved seven ton of snow, easily, out of that pile by hand, shovel, snow rakes -- I can't even tell you what they used ... to recover those two boys," he said. 
 
 Demarest was recovered from the pile at around 7:15 p.m., and rescuers began CPR. He was taken to Saratoga Hospital. 
 
 
 
 The second boy, Tyler J. Day, 12, and also a seventh-grader at Greenwich Central, was found a few minutes later, Bell said. He started yelling and talking to his rescuers as they freed him from the pile, and he was also taken to Saratoga Hospital, Bell said. 
 
 Demarest's mother was in New Jersey at the time of the accident to deal with funeral arrangements for Josh Demarest's grandmother, who died at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Bell said. 
 
 "Our hearts go out to that family ... it's just a tragic day all around," he said. 
 
 Day was treated for hypothermia and was home and resting Wednesday morning. 
 
 "In talking with Tyler last night in the emergency room ... it's a true tragedy, it's an accident ... and exactly what happened, I don't think we'll ever know, but Tyler states that him and his friend went into this area, they dug holes into the snowbanks and ... made what they call forts in there," Bell said. 
 
 The boys heard trucks coming, and Tyler said he heard beeping sounds before everything went black, Bell said. 
 
 Authorities believe the last truck to dump snow in the lot was there at around 3:30 p.m. That would mean the boys were stuck in the snow pile for more than three hours, Bell said. 
 
 The Greenwich Board of Education posted a statement addressing the school community on the district's website Wednesday. 
 
 "As parents and educators, we so often say: 'Go outside. Be kids. Play and explore. Do something... anything. Please,'" the statement reads. "We never expect it to end tragically under a pile of snow or beneath the weight of a rock on a hiking trail, but twice in the last nine months this is what our school and community (the 7th grade class in particular) has had to endure." 
 
 In March, Connor McLaughlin, 12, of Greenwich, was struck and killed by a falling boulder while hiking with his uncle at Roaring Brook Falls in the Adirondacks. 
 
 "The coming days and weeks will undoubtedly be difficult," the statement continues. "Students will need shoulders to cry on, and so will you. Please know you have our full support in whatever you need." 
 
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 The community is now grieving and trying to figure out how something as simple as building a snow fort turned into such a devastating tragedy. 
 
 At a press conference Wednesday morning, Greenwich Police Chief George Bell repeatedly commended the investigators he said dug through tons of packed snow to find 13-year-old Joshua J. Demarest, and 12-year-old Tyler J. Day. 
 
 “Day tells his dad and my officers in the emergency room last night that he heard, what he believed was, beeping sounds and the next thing you know it went black,” Chief Bell said. 
 
 Both boys live on Rock Road, where the incident occurred. Police say the boys were digging holes for forts in a snow bank in a parking lot where public works crews dump plowed snow. 
 
 Around 5 p.m., Chief Bell says Day’s sister reported him missing when he and Demarest never returned home from playing outside. Police say public works crews were out plowing snow around the same time. 
 
 Investigators searching for the children followed tracks from behind the house of the boys to a parking lot, where a State Police K-9 unit found a sled covered in snow. 
 
 The sled belonged to one of the boys. The sled was found close to where they children were trapped. 
 
 Police say over a dozen police, firefighters and other investigators dug with their hands and shovels to move hundreds of pounds of hard packed snow. 
 
 “I bet they moved seven tons of snow easily out of that pile by hand, shovels, snow rakes,” Chief Bell said. 
 
 At around 7:15 p.m., nearly four hours after, it’s believed the last DPW crew dumped snow on the bank, trapping the boys. Police say Demarest was found unresponsive, and emergency personnel immediately began to perform CPR. 
 
 Investigators found Day a few minutes later. Both boys were rushed to Saratoga Hospital, where Demarest was pronounced dead a little after 10 p.m. 
 
 Day suffered from hypothermia, but is now home recovering. 
 
 “You can actually see the little pocket in that huge bank that he survived in and it is nothing short of a miracle,” police said. 
 
 Department of Public Works Superintendent Leo Flynn says there’s no way his workers could have seen the teens. 
 
 “The guys are devastated,” said Flynn. “I mean again, they’re all firemen. They all have kids in the school and grandkids and yeah, they’re struggling with it as to be expected.” 
 
 “A true accident,” Chief Bell said. “That’s all I can tell you. A tragedy all the way around. There was no way that anybody could have seen the kids burrowed in back there.” 
 
 the photo 13-year-old Joshua Demarest's grandfather wanted to share of him today, his former teacher says he loved the outdoors and soccer pic.twitter.com/4whbVDWV92 — Lindsay Nielsen (@Lindsayon10) December 14, 2016 
 
 On Wednesday, mourners came to lay flowers in memory of Demarest. Flowers were put there by Day’s father. He says his son is physically okay, but not doing well with this horrific tragedy that killed his friend. 
 
 Superintendent of Greenwich Schools Mark Fish says he was an active boy who loved the outdoors and soccer. 
 
 “I found out he was in the French Club as well, I wouldn’t have known that but you know, pretty well rounded. Good student. Well-liked by his peers,” Fish said. 
 
 The school of course has counselors on hand to help students and staff and the superintendent says they will be there as long as they are needed. 
 
 A rose left at the snow bank in Greenwich where 13yr old Joshua Demarest was trapped yesterday and later died pic.twitter.com/o7zYKRCtsp — Lindsay Nielsen (@Lindsayon10) December 14, 2016
– A young New York boy is dead after workers inadvertently dumped a mountain of snow on him and his friend Tuesday, the Albany Times Union reports. Policy say the boys—13-year-old Joshua Demarest and 12-year-old Tyler Day—were playing in a snow pile on a private lot in Greenwich after school; they "burrowed" into the large pile to create forts. But the lot where they were playing is also where the Department of Public Works dumps snow cleared from sidewalks. Workers apparently dropped a massive amount of snow on top of the boys without ever realizing they were there. Hours later, Tyler's sister reported them missing and a search was launched, according to News 10. Searchers found footprints leading to the lot, and police dogs pointed to the snow pile. More than a dozen police and firefighters worked to dig the boys out. "They moved an enormous amount of snow...to recover those boys," says Bell, who the Daily Gazette reports estimated the boys were trapped under at least seven tons. Both boys were taken to the hospital after being stuck in the snow for nearly four hours. Joshua later died. Police are calling Tyler's survival a "miracle," but his father says he's struggling with the death of his friend. Also struggling are the workers, who police say couldn't have known the boys were there. "The guys are devastated," the Department of Public Works superintendent tells News 10.