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Rene Compean had hiked the park near his home in Southern California numerous times. But after venturing (敢于去) along a new path last April, the 45-year-old mechanic was lost.
As the day faded into dusk, following several hours of aimless wandering, his concern turned to fear. With no flashlight, only a liter of water and a power bar in his backpack, and less than ten percent battery remaining on his cell phone, Compean was unprepared for anything more than the two-hour journey he’d planned.
Compean climbed to a spot, some 7,000 feet above sea level, where he found at least one bar of signal. “SOS. My phone is going to die. I’m lost,” he texted a friend, attaching a photo showing where he was. The shot showed his legs hanging over rocks.
All Compean could do then was wait and hope. The temperature was dropping fast, and the winds were blowing. And he wouldn’t sleep. After spotting two mountain lions and a hear, he spent the night on high alert, keeping a big stick and some sharp rocks beside him in case an animal came close.
Sixty miles away in Ventura County, Ben Kuo was working at home when he read a tweet from the police station, showing a blurry (模糊的) image of a man’s legs. The police search-and-rescue teams had spent the previous night unsuccessfully looking for Compean, so they released the photo to the public, hoping someone might know the location,
Kuo has an unusual hobby. “I have always loved looking for where photos are taken,” he says. He frequently tries to identify where movie scenes, television shows, or commercials were filmed. He’s often successful.
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Seeing the blurry image, Kuo pulled up a satellite map on his laptop.
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The police of Ventura County arrived on the spot immediately.
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60-year-old Richard Olsen had retired from his work. He was very interested in adventure and hunting. This time he hunted on a land near Watford City, N D., in the sparsely (稀少地) populated western portion of the state. In the cold winter, he tried a new spot and forgot to bring his cell phone, the only time on the trip. He trekked (艰苦跋涉) more than half a mile with two dogs and a harvested wheat field.
Eyes fixed in the horizon in expectation of another pheasant (野鸡) taking flight, Richard stepped on a thin crust (外壳) of snow on a canal. It collapsed and dropped him.
Realizing that he was in trouble and was going to hurt himself, Richard was suddenly picking up a lot of speed. His left leg hurt first, and he lay on his side to reach for his shotgun (猎枪), unloaded it and used it as a crutch (拐杖). He spent an hour and a half climbing the earthen canal backward to keep pressure off his bad leg. When he was partly up, he slipped and slid back down, because one of his feet got stuck between two rocks. Richard told himself that if he didn’t get himself out of the canal he wasn’t going to have a very good night.
Richard walked his foot free and climbed more slowly and cautiously out of the canal. Richard immediately realized the difficulty of the task before him. The accident occurred at about 2 p.m., and it was nearly 5 p.m. with the road far away and the sun setting.
Richard focused on crawling to safety. Even with his gun’s support, hopping (单足跳跃) was impractical. Instead, he sat down and pushed himself backward less than 40 inches at a time with his good leg. He was stubborn and sure that he must be persistent. He was in exhaustion and had more frequent breaks. Temperatures dropped below zero overnight, and his gloves and boots got wet. His hands and feet soon were completely numb.
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Richard’s dogs had been playing in the field and eventually came up to him.
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However, gleams of daylight remained — Richard saw the seventh car.
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Rescue in a Bottle
Curtis Whitson had rafted down the Arroyo Seco, a river in central California, several times before.
This year, Curtis Whitson knew the water-fall was coming. He figured he would get out of his raft into the shallow water, get down the rocks along ropes on either side of the falls, and continue on his way, as he had on a previous trip.
But this year was different. Heavy snow and spring rains had turned the usually manageable falls into something fierce. And this year, instead of his friends, Whitson’s companions were his girlfriend, Krystal Ramirez and his 13-year-old son, Hunter. As the three of them approached the falls late in, the afternoon of the third day of their camping trip, Whitson could tell from the increasing roar of water in the narrowing canyon (峡谷) that they were in serious trouble. There was no way they’d be able to get down the rocks as planned.
“The water was just roaring through there with tremendous force,” recalls Whitson.
They had no smart phone service, and they hadn’t seen a single person in the past three days. And Whitson knew that they’d be sharing the ground there with rattle snakes and mountain lions.
As he was thinking what to do, Whitson hit on a bit of luck — he heard voices coming from the other side of the falls. He yelled, but the sound of the rushing water drowned him out.
“We have to get these people a message,” Whitson thought.
He grabbed a stick and pulled out his pocketknife to carve “Help” in it. Then he tied a rope to it so the people would know it wasn’t just any stick. He tried throwing it over the falls, but it floated away in the wrong direction.
“We’ve got to do something!” Whitson yelled to his son. “Have we got anything else?”
Then he spotted his water bottle. Whitson grabbed it and carved “Help!” on it. Ramirez also reminded him that he had a pen and paper in his backpack.
Whitson knew it was a slim hope. But he wrote “6-15 19:00 We are stuck here@ the waterfall. Get help please” and pushed the note into the bottle. This time, his throw over the waterfall was perfect.
“All right, that’s all we can do,” Whitson told Hunter.
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It took 30 minutes to get back upstream to the beach where they’d had lunch.
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The next morning, the helicopter returned.
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Excited screams of joy，the sounds of two happy little girls playing in the sand，rang across the beach. But I walked along，barely aware of it. I'd come to this remote beach on my sailboat，a place to escape. My wife and I had recently separated，our marriage in trouble. I worried about my two boys，just six and eight. It seemed like forever since I'd heard them laugh. But I didn't know what to do to make things better.
“Help！Help！”The girls shouted. I'd meant to tell them to stay away from the dangerous water. Now one of them was in the ocean，beyond the surf line. I could just hear her screams over the waves. Any second now she'd be swept away. I ran across the sand as fast as I could. The other girl was at the edge of the surf line，yelling.
“Wait！Stop！Don't go any farther！”I charged into the waves and was reaching for her when a wall of water dashed over us. For half a second I saw her disappear under another big wave. I'm a strong swimmer, but I could feel the wave pulling me hard. I swam to her and seized her, her little body shaking, trembling. But where is the other girl? I saw a waving arm. A head broke the surface, not far away. The arms of the girl I'd rescued were wrapped desperately around my neck. She was breathing with sobs. “Let go of my neck. I need you on my back. Hold my shoulders so I can swim to your friend. ”
She loosed her hands and I shifted her to my back. “She's my sister, Sarah, and I am Lillian,” she said. For a moment I thought of my boys. How much they loved each other. How much I loved them.
I looked across the water and saw a small head after a big wave. I quickened my swimming，fighting for each breath. Tiny arms pressed against my shoulder. I reached out and held the second little girl. She was in total tiredness，taking deep breaths，crying quietly.
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I swam hard with the two girls and looked toward shore，but I couldn’t see anyone.
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“Mommy!” The loud cry wakened my consciousness,
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Tim and his wife went shopping for some supplies during last month’s deadly storm in Texas.
Tim immediately regretted the trip when he saw the line of people outside, waiting to enter the Leander H-E-B Plus. But the couple wanted to be prepared in case conditions worsened. They had shopped for about fifteen minutes before the store suddenly lost power and light went out.
Customers continued shopping until a store manager asked them to head to the checkout counter. Tim and his wife joined what he thought to be a few hundred people in a long check-out line.
When the couple arrived at the checkout counter, the cashier let them through saying there wasn’t time to bag anything. Tim thought the store would collect his information for payment later. Yet when he and his wife asked about paying, the cashier said, “Just go ahead and be safe driving home.”
“I saw all these people going out with carts and it kind of surprised us. Wow! They are letting everybody leave with free groceries,” Tim said.
Touched by the unexpected act of kindness they experienced, many customers decided to pay it forward as they left the store. Out in the parking lot, complete strangers helped each other to put unbagged groceries into cars.
“This older woman couldn’t get her car moving because of the ice,” Tim said. “She looked worried, so I knocked on her window and three or four of us actually pushed her and got her moving.”
On the ride home, the couple thought about their experience and were deeply moved.
To show their thanks, they planned to give what they would have spent on groceries to an H-E-B supported charity.
“I think everybody thought it was a nice act for a company,” he said. "And it makes you want to help other people too.
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Hearing his words, his wife nodded firmly.
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After doing everything they could do, they drove home merrily.
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“Daddy, where’s Teddy?” 6-year-old Naomi called from the back of the minivan (小客车). “Tm sure he’s here somewhere,” Ben Pascal said, and pulled off the highway to search for his daughter’s beloved furry pal.
While his wife, Addie, enjoyed some alone time, the Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Dad had taken their three kids to visit family friends Terri and Paul Hayden in Big Fork, Montana. The group had spent the October 2020 day at nearby Glacier (冰川) National Park.
“Are you sure she had Teddy?” Terri asked after they’d searched the minivan without finding the bear she carries him everywhere, “Ben said. Ben and Addie had given Teddy to Naomi before they even met her.
“This is for you,” an orphanage (孤儿院) worker slipped the stuffed bear into 6-month-old Naomi’s bed.“Your new mom and dad want you to know they love you and are coming as soon as they can.”
It took a year to complete the adoption process, but finally, in July 2016, they brought Naomi home Teddy held in her arms.
At the thought of never seeing him again, Naomi cried herself to sleep that night and the next. Terri called the lost and found department and left her phone number, but no one had turned him in. “I know the odds are against finding him,” said Addie. She posted a request on a Friends of Glacier Facebook group asking for help. One woman had actually seen Teddy sitting on a rock and had even taken his picture. But kids were nearby and she thought the bear belonged to them. People promised to keep a lookout and others offered to buy Naomi a new bear. But no bear could ever replace Teddy in the little girl’s heart.
Meanwhile, as fall gave way to winter and the park prepared to close for the season, park ranger (护林员) Tom Mazzarisi began checking paths-collecting rubbish and pulling up signs.
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Bus driver Harlan Jenifer was out at 3 am to drive his bus around Torresdale Avenue near Cottman in the Tacony neighborhood when he saw a tiny figure (人影) waiting at the bus stop. It was Annabelle, a 4-year-old little girl.
It was the wee hours (凌晨) of a rainy morning and Harlan was out to drive his SEPTA's 56 bus on his regular route (路线).As usual, he picked up his passengers (乘客) one by one. Of course, he had no idea that he would pick up a special (特别的) passenger at this time in the morning. Just as he was about to pass a stop near the Tacony neighborhood, a woman passenger told him about a little girl she saw, all alone waiting at the bus stop. He stopped his bus and was shocked (震惊的) at what he saw. Wearing her purple raincoat, sleeping clothes, and her boots, little Annabelle was patiently waiting for the bus to stop so she could ride on it.
The bus driver could not believe his eyes. His passengers at the time were also shocked to see a tiny kid all alone in the rain at that moment. Seeing a child about the age of a preschooler at 3 am without any adult (成年人) with her was surely a shock. Harlan was quite surprised and then it hit him. He had to do something to take the little girl safely back home.
He and the passengers on the bus tried to find out how this happened. As it turned out, Annabelle even walked 5 blocks (街区) in the rain before she reached the bus stop where she was found. Without hesitation (犹豫) , Harlan called the local police and told them of the little girl they found.
As Annabelle sat on the bus, the passengers comforted (安慰) her and made sure she was okay. As the little girl sat with the other passengers, she shared her mission (使命) that early morning. “All I want is a slushie(冰沙),” That was all she said. By the way, slushie is a frozen treat (冷冻食品) .
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Within an hour, police officers came to fetch Annabelle.
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Annabelle’s parents were happy to see her again.
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