Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
Benbow missing girls found safe https://t.co/4SgVZ6HqjA pic.twitter.com/IRMQieNeNf
— Humboldt County Sheriff (@HumCoSO)
These two young girls were finally rescued and reunited with their parents after spending 44 hours in the Northern Californian wilderness.
The ordeal began on Friday afternoon when 8-year-old Leia Carrico and her 5-year-old sister Caroline asked their mother if they could go on a hike.
The family routinely goes on weekend camping trips and hikes, so it was nothing out of the ordinary – but things took a turn when the sisters accidentally wandered too far down a deer trail through their parents’ 80-acre property in Benbow. The girls then realized that they were walking in circles when they passed the same set of metal poles in the forest.
Though Caroline and Leia were frightened, they remembered all the survival skills that they learned from their camping trips, 4H camps, and favorite television shows.
As temperatures plunged during their first night in the wild, the girls sheltered themselves from the rain by draping one of their jackets over a huckleberry bush and huddling together for warmth. They used the huckleberry leaves to drink rainwater, and Leia encouraged her younger sister to think happy thoughts and have faith that their father would rescue them.
Meanwhile, their parents became panicked when their children failed to return home before dark. They phoned the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department and launched a 250-person rescue crew to…
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