Wow! God was really looking out for those girls. That is amazing.
Becky From: steve doyle Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RecipesAndMore] True Story from U K Girls lost in woods tell of dramatic rescue Two schoolgirls have been rescued from dense woodland after using a mobile phone to direct a police helicopter to find them. Babes in the Woods Zoe Coombes and Erin Radford, both aged 14, got lost after they went paddling in a woodland stream after school. They took a wrong turn as they walked from the Plymbridge Woods to their homes in Mainstone, Plymouth, and got lost in dense forest. They were wearing only shorts and t-shirts and were freezing and terrified as night fell and they walked into even thicker woodland as they tried to find They sang the Rihanna song Disturbia and Summer Holiday to keep their spirits up as they waited to be rescued. The battery on Zoe's phone was running out and Erin's signal kept coming and going and so they were only able to raise the alarm at 8.40 pm when they had been lost for two hours. Erin's phone also had an SOS function uses its torch to flash out the distress signal and they used this to try to attract the attention of the helicopter crew. They climbed an overgrown path to the top of a hill so they could get a good enough signal to direct the police helicopter towards them. They could only tell the crew if they were getting nearer or further but it helped them get close enough to pinpoint the girls using a heat seeking camera. The girls were rescued after being away from home for six hours and were treated for mild hypothermia by paramedics before being reunited with their parents. They were found five miles away near the Royal Marine barracks at Bickleigh on the Northern edge of Plymouth. Zoe said:"We had just gone for a paddle down to the river and we went a different way home and got confused. "We saw a sign to Bickleigh and we knew out way home from there and so we followed it but it was dark and we got even more lost. "We got to some stables at one point but there was nobody there and we carried on. "A couple of cyclists passed us as it was getting dark and we screamed out for help but they just carried on. "My phone had no battery and the signal on Erin's kept coming and going. We got through to the police but they could not hear us. "I managed to call my dad who called the police but we did not know if they were coming. "We went up a hill to get a signal and when we saw the helicopter we used the mobile to tell them if they were getting nearer or going further away. "At one point the light from the helicopter disappeared altogether but then it came back again and they found us. "We were on the phone to them for about 20 minutes before they found us. "Erin's phone had an SOS light on it which flashes out the letters in Morse code and we tried to aim that at the helicopter but I don't think they saw us. "We were only wearing shorts and t-shirts and we were freezing. It was completely dark and very cold. "The only light was the torch on the mobile but it wasn't very bright and we could only see about a metre ahead and we were being scratched by brambles all the time. "We were terrified. I just sat down and cried but Erin was trying to keep me happy and swore she knew the way home. "She got us to sing. We sang Rihanna's Disturbia and when we were getting really cold we sang 'We're all going on a summer holiday'. "We heard lots of scary sounds and saw some deer but we were most scared that we were lost and nobody would find us. "It was so good when we saw the torches coming towards us. We just ran up to the people and hugged them. "They took us home and it was ages before I got warm again but I am fine now and I am never going back in those woods again." Erin said:"Zoe was a bit cold and worried and I was worried about how the police were going to find us. "I was on the phone to the police helicopter crew and was telling them to go left or right and if they were getting nearer or further away. "I was on the phone to my Mum at first and once I got a signal she told me to stay exactly where I was in case we lost it. "Then the helicopter crew rang me direct and I gave them directions. At one point they went out of sight but then the called back and I was able to get them here in five to ten minutes. "I was getting cold by this time and my legs started shaking. We were to everyone who helped find us." "Zoe was welcomed home by her father, railway worker David Coombes, aged 43, and his wife Deborah, aged 42, and sister Jeri, aged 16. David said:"We were all very worried. They had gone out after school and it was not until about 10.40 pm we got the call they were safe. It is a great relief they are both all right." A single candle can illuminate an entire room. A true friend lights up an entire lifetime. Thanks for the bright lights of your friendship. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
