A California hiker who was the victim of a paralyzing bite to the leg while she was alone in the forest managed to contact the emergency services at the last minute before her cell phone died last week.
“Approximately half of the emergency calls SAR receives come from someone whose phone battery is dying,” Inyo County Search & Rescue (SAR) said Monday on Monday. Facebook.
Last Wednesday, the American organization managed to locate an injured hiker in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in California, who had just been bitten by a possible spider and no longer felt “the skin on her legs”, to the point of no longer able to continue the descent, reported CBS News.
The woman was at the time in Taboose Pass off the John Muir Trail, a “much less maintained” area where hikers face “very tricky” sections and “very steep slopes,” in addition to difficulty locating their route. , we can read.
It was while trying to collect water from a stream in the area that the woman was suddenly bitten.
However, upon seeing that she was losing her mobility, the hiker would have used the few percentages remaining in her cell phone battery to contact the emergency services around 6:30 p.m. She would then have managed to share her coordinates, before losing the contact due to the empty battery of his device.
The search team nevertheless managed to locate her just before midnight and slowly lowered her from the steep paths using ropes, before transferring her to a rolling stretcher to continue the journey, noted the American media.
If the woman’s condition was not specified, the organization made up of volunteers took the opportunity to raise awareness among hikers.
“Always bring an (external) power battery for your phone, don’t use anything that could drain its battery or, better yet, bring a satellite phone,” HRH insisted in its publication.
