<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>South Australian Police have spent the morning scouring the outback for signs of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont, but have had their efforts cut short due to extreme heat.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>More than 100 personnel, including the Australian Defence Force and SES were out in the landscape surrounding Yunta from first light this morning, searching for fresh clues to try and find out what happened to the boy who has been missing since September 27.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Today marked day three of an extended search under the name Task Force Horizon to try and find Lamont, with the focus on a 5.5km radius around the remote homestead from where he went missing.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/sydney-weather-hottest-october-on-record-could-happen/54f06329-d148-4eae-99a5-a5c30a1b1d1d" target="_blank"><strong><span>Aussie city set to shatter blistering 37-year heat record</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Gus was last seen about 5pm on Saturday, September 27 at his family's homestead Oak Park Station in remote South Australia, about 40km south of Yunta.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Taskforce Horizon consists of 12 specialists who will analyse information and suggest different areas to search.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police believe they will finish the search of that radius by tomorrow, with search efforts today stopped at midday as temperature are set to hit 37 degrees in the area.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/missing-boy-gus-lamont-update-search-efforts-cut-short-due-to-heat/927c1e04-8566-456f-8f4a-a2b469687974" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After tomorrow, no further large scale searches are planned.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/israel-hamas-ceasefire-two-more-bodies-returned-to-israel-after-one-not-a-hostage/b3778ac5-eea7-4345-8642-27fd863baaf2" target="_blank"><strong><span>Israel, Hamas swap bodies after 'hostage' error threatens peace</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police insist it is still a missing persons investigation, though major crime detectives are mionitoring the case and are keeping all lines of inquiry open.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>No evidence was located in yesterday's search according to police.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are dedicated to making sure we do everything we possibly can to bring Gus back to his family," South Australia Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said on Tuesday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are searching in quite unusual terrain, it is a significant effort… we're exhausting every opportunity to recover Gus."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727"><em><strong><span>Apple App Store</span></strong></em></a><span> </span><em><strong><span>and</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&amp;hl=en_AU"><em><strong><span>Google Play</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>.</span></strong></em></div></div>