diff --git a/app_selenium/missing_kids.py b/app_selenium/missing_kids.py
index 7c8a03f..da89073 100644
--- a/app_selenium/missing_kids.py
+++ b/app_selenium/missing_kids.py
@@ -25,17 +25,6 @@ class MissingKidsFetcher():
         pass
 
     def verify_missing_kid_url(self, url):
-        # Initialize
-        driver = get_webdriver()
-        # Load URL
-        driver.get(url)
-        # Wait for 404?
-        WebDriverWait(driver, 1).until(EC.title_contains("404"))
-
-        if ("404" in driver.title):
-            # Status invalid
-            return "invalid"
-
         def load_finished(driver):
             # Find all <img> tags with src attributes. Extract src URLs
             image_urls = [img.get_attribute("src") for img in driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//img[@src]")]
@@ -44,25 +33,50 @@ class MissingKidsFetcher():
             # logger.debug("Finished loading URL")
             return finished
 
-        # Check until finished loading
-        num_checks = 5
-        while (not load_finished(driver)) and (num_checks>=0):
+        try:
+            # Initialize
+            driver = get_webdriver()
+            # Load URL
+            driver.get(url)
+            # Wait for 404?
+            WebDriverWait(driver, 1).until(EC.title_contains("404"))
+
+            if ("404" in driver.title):
+                # Status invalid
+                results = {"status": "invalid"}
+            else:
+                # Check until finished loading
+                num_checks = 5
+                while (not load_finished(driver)) and (num_checks>=0):
+                    time.sleep(1)
+
+                # Find all <img> tags with src attributes. Extract src URLs
+                image_urls = [img.get_attribute("src") for img in driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//img[@src]")]
+
+                if ("missingkids.org/404" in driver.current_url) or (any(["thumb-404.png" in i for i in image_urls])):
+                    # Status invalid
+                    results = {"status": "invalid"}
+                elif ("Haven you seen this child?" in driver.title):
+                    # Status valid
+                    results = {"status": "valid"}
+                elif (driver.current_url != url):
+                    # Redirection (duplicate)
+                    results = {"status": "duplicate", "redirection": driver.current_url}
+                else:
+                    results = {"status": "unknown"}
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.warning("Exception while verifying MissingKid URL {}\n{}".format(url, str(e)), exc_info=True)
+            results = {}
+
+        # Release memory
+        try:
+            driver.quit() #driver.close()
             time.sleep(1)
-
-        # Find all <img> tags with src attributes. Extract src URLs
-        image_urls = [img.get_attribute("src") for img in driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//img[@src]")]
-
-        if ("missingkids.org/404" in driver.current_url) or (any(["thumb-404.png" in i for i in image_urls])):
-            # Status invalid
-            return {"status": "invalid"}
-        elif ("Haven you seen this child?" in driver.title):
-            # Status valid
-            return {"status": "valid"}
-        elif (driver.current_url != url):
-            # Redirection (duplicate)
-            return {"status": "duplicate", "redirection": driver.current_url}
-        else:
-            return {"status": "unknown"}
+            # import atexit
+            # atexit.register(driver.quit)  # Will always be called on exit
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.warning("Exception while closing/quitting driver: {}".format(str(e)), exc_info=True)
+        return results
         
 
     def get_missing_kids_urls(self, first_n_pages=-1):
diff --git a/app_urls/fetcher/src/db_utils.py b/app_urls/fetcher/src/db_utils.py
index 0c9c077..bf09b2e 100644
--- a/app_urls/fetcher/src/db_utils.py
+++ b/app_urls/fetcher/src/db_utils.py
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ class DB_Handler():
                     missingkids_fetch_endpoint = os.path.join(os.getenv("SELENIUM_ENDPOINT", "http://localhost:80"), "verify_missing_kid/")
                     data = {"url": obj_url.url}
                     # POST
-                    r = requests.post(missingkids_fetch_endpoint, json=data)
+                    r = requests.post(missingkids_fetch_endpoint, json=data, timeout=30)
                     # Jsonify
                     results = r.json()