Rescuers in California successfully recovered a woman and her 9-year-old in a remote forest after search crews found notes left by the pair.
Weighed down with rocks, the mother and son wrote “HELP” and detailed how they were lost without phone service.
“HELP. Me and my son are stranded with no service and can’t call 911. We are ahead, up the road to the right. Please call 911 to get help for us. Thank you!” one note read.
By chance, a volunteer search-and-rescue team was at the remote wooded area in the Sierra Nevada foothills and discovered the notes. The mother and son were rescued a day after they set out, according to the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office.
Remote California forest
The pair had originally set off into the woods in search of a Boy Scouts camp on Friday but their GPS directed them onto old logging roads and eventually lost signal.
A volunteer search-and-rescue team that was training in the Sierra Nevada foothills found the pair Saturday, a day after they had set out for the camp, according to the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office.
Campers found the woman’s car, which helped narrow down the search ad they accessed the woman’s last known location through an app.
They found the first note four hours into the search.