Good news for a change
Posted on 03/04/2019 10:40:57 AM PST by Hojczyk
Two young sisters who survived for 44 hours in the wilderness of Northern California before they were found alive on Sunday did so by using basic survival skills they learned at their local 4-H club.
Carolina Carrico, 5 and Leia Carrico, 8, were discovered around 10:30 a.m. by two firefighters who were able to follow their tracks and locate them, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal told reporters.
"This is an absolute miracle," he said. "This is rugged territory, this is an extreme environment. How they were out there for 44 hours is pretty amazing."
Officials were able to locate the girls after Delbert Chumley and Abram Hill from the Piercy Volunteer Fire Department initially found their boot prints at 8:30 a.m. After following the tracks, the responders reached an area near Richardson Grove State Park and called out to the girls, who responded.
"The girls were located huddled together under a bush," the sheriff's office said. "The sisters were evaluated by medical personnel for dehydration and given water and warm, dry clothing."
The sisters told officials they were following a deer trail when they became lost.
"The two decided to stay put, drinking fresh water from Huckleberry leaves," officials said.
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Good news for a change
"The sisters were evaluated by medical personnel for dehydration and given water and warm, dry clothing."
As an aside: product placement by Coca-Cola.
Anyone can go without food and water for 44 hours.
The cold will kill you. You have to have a plan for the cold.
Glad to hear they made it!
Is mainlining sugar the recommend treatment for dehydration?
Glad they made it...
The IV Dextrose 5 or 10% in Water is essentially the same thing.
They need a little energy boost.
Really glad those brave little girls were found OK. Answered prayers and all.
Thank you for providing a photo:
90% of people don’t do that, even for news items that really require a photo.
Unless they were packing empty granola bar packages, they had some food, too.
Staying put. Smart girls! That’s the only thing I learned from one lesson we had about basic survival skills in high school health class. Oh, actually, that and don’t drink alcohol to “warm you up”. You’re actually introducing hypothermia faster.
I don’t know,
The one on the Right
Looks like Trouble!
/s
Looks like they had a pizza too. Box is sitting on the bed in front of them.
One of the ways they were tracked down was by granola bar wrappers they tossed...
Anyone know how to get water from a huckleberry leaf?
Anyone know how to get water from a huckleberry leaf?
The officers followed their boot tracks.
Outdoors-men, doing it the right way.
Kudos to them for that kind of patience and situational awareness.
Meanwhile the California legislature will write and pass a bill condemning 4H as racist, homophobic, xenophobic and anti immigrant and proceed to destroy the organization as a white supremest group designed to ignore minority survival.
God has other plans for these girls later in life. Welcome home!
If I had eggs I could have 'bacon and eggs' if I had bacon...
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