FORT FAIRFIELD – After a week of searching for a missing 3-year-old girl, the only thing officials have found are her pink winter boots.

Police believe Alexandria Winship-Wright may have fallen into the rushing waters of the Aroostook River last Wednesday and drowned. But after days of extensive searching – by air, on the ground and underwater – crews have found no other trace of the little girl.

Still, officials have said the search will continue indefinitely. Four wardens and a handful of searchers were out, along with three boats, kayaks and an airplane, looking for signs of the toddler, Sgt. Tom Ward of the Maine Warden Service said Wednesday.

Searchers also were using an underwater camera from the Maine State Police to inspect pools in the river.

Ward said conditions on the river were improving but still were not favorable. The water level has dropped, and the river’s flow has gone from about 40,000 cubic feet per second last week to 25,000 cfs, but Ward said the water is still cold and murky.

“The thing that’s hindering search efforts is the visibility,” he said.

Ward said crews still were going strong a week into the search but that everyone is hoping for some closure.

“We’re going to keep doing what we’re doing, and hopefully we can catch a break,” he said.

Officials have been searching for Winship-Wright, a blond-haired, blue-eyed toddler, since she was reported missing last Wednesday afternoon. Her mother, Mandy Wright, told search officials that she stepped away to use the bathroom and when she returned, the sliding glass door at the back of her apartment was open and her daughter was gone.

Police believe the little girl trudged to the Aroostook River, which is about 50 yards from her back door, and went into the water near the Route 1A Bridge. Soon into the search, crews found one of the toddler’s boots along the riverbank about 200 yards from where they believe she went into the water. Several hours later, they located her second boot floating in the middle of the river about a mile from the apartment.

In town, officials are seeing a shift in how locals are viewing the search, Officer Kevin Reed, the Fort Fairfield Police Department officer on duty, said Wednesday.

People are starting to see it more as a recovery effort than a rescue, he said.

“The feeling is still a consensus that we, as a town, want her found to bring some closure,” Reed said. “Just let her be found so we can have some kind of answer and move on from there.”

He said locals were planning a Wednesday night candlelight ceremony near the dike, which overlooks the Aroostook River, in the little girl’s memory.