Man survives car wreck; has rain to thank for rescuefor 3 days
Saturday, August 3, 2013, 5:51 PM -
It's an amazing story of survival -- and the man who lived has the rain to thank for it.
Fire crews doing some prevention work stumbled on a car wreck in a remote area west of Missoula, Montana.
The rain pulled them off fires -- and it was a lucky thing. Inside, they found a man who told them he had been trapped there for three days.
When crews arrived at the scene, the 30-year-old man was conscious and talking. But the Ninemile Forest workers didn't have the right equipment to get him out of his car. They called Frenchtown firefighters and secured the Chevy to a tree with a fire hose.
"When we touched his car his car was ready to move, so that's why we used the fire hose to stabilize it until Frenchtown could get there," said Patrick Oakley of the Ninemile Ranger District.
The man who says he spent three days pinned, in pain and dehydrating on a remote mountain road all alone, was taken to St. Patrick Hospital. There's no word yet on his condition.
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