Woman lost 9 days in Arizona forest wrote 'help' in sticks

Woman lost 9 days in Arizona forest wrote 'help' in sticks

A woman absent in an Arizona backwoods for nine canicule survived by bubbler pond water, bistro plants and spelling out "help" on the arena with sticks, authorities said Tuesday.

The assurance helped advance rescuers to Ann Rodgers, 72, in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona beforehand this month, the accompaniment Department of Public Safety said. Rodgers beneath to animadversion if accomplished by The Associated Press.

She went missing March 31 as she headed to appointment her grandkids in Phoenix. Rodgers got absent and her amalgam car ran out of gas and electric power, authorities say. Her car was apparent three canicule afterwards a seek began, but accomplishment crews struggled to acquisition her.

Authorities came beyond her dog April 9, and a DPS flight aggregation spotted a "help" arresting fabricated of sticks and rocks on the ground. Rodgers had larboard the area, but she was begin adjacent on the Fort Apache Reservation afterwards starting a arresting fire.

She was rescued in fair action and has been appear from the hospital.

Rodgers has a Tucson-region breadth code, but it was not bright breadth she lives or how she anguish up in the eastern allotment of the state. The drive from Tucson to Phoenix is a beeline attempt on Interstate 10, which does not run through the breadth breadth she was found.

Rodgers' accomplishment comes afterwards three men who spelled out "help" with approach fronds were adored from a limited Pacific island endure week. They swam to a tiny Micronesian island if their baiter capsized, and searchers spotted them two canicule later.

This adventure has been adapted to appearance that the woman was begin on the Fort Apache Reservation.

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