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15 Feb ’12
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think she will be charged with anything?
A woman who gave birth alone and was stranded for days in a remote area of northern California says she survived the ordeal by starting a fire that roared out of control and drew firefighters to her rescue.
Officials with the Plumas National Forest confirmed that a fire broke out on Saturday (local time) at the park and that firefighters rescued a woman and a newborn baby from the burn area.
They declined to discuss the cause of the fire, saying it was under investigation.
Amber Pangborn of Oroville, California, told television station KCRA that after realising she might be going into labour, she drove along a back road to get to her parents' home for help, only to get lost in a remote part of the forest.
"There was no cell phone service, there was nothing. And the car was out of gas," Ms Pangborn said.
Alone, Ms Pangborn gave birth early last Thursday. She and her newborn child, whom she named Marissa, were then stranded without any provisions except for three apples, a bottle of water and a can of soda.
The 35-year-old said she also encountered a swarm of bees and mosquitoes.
"I was trying to get them not to sting her, but I got stung," Ms Pangborn said, referring to her daughter.
Desperate to get help, she started a fire two days later in the hope of attracting attention, and the flames quickly grew.
"The fire just went whoosh and shot up the mountainside. And I was looking at Marissa ... and I was like, 'I think mummy just started a forest fire'."
A helicopter crew responding to the fire spotted the car containing the mother and newborn and sent a fire truck which took the pair to another location.
The fire grew to 1,000 square metres and was extinguished without any injury to firefighters, the Forest Service said.
"Our thoughts and best wishes continue to be with the mother and baby," Chris French, forest supervisor for Plumas National Forest, said in a statement.
Ms Pangborn's mother, Dianna Williams, told KCRA that she was elated her daughter and granddaughter were safe.
"The baby's beautiful and everything's wonderful," she said.
15 Feb ’12
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didn't expect that
PARADISE, Calif. (KCRA and AP) —A pregnant woman who became lost and gave birth in a Northern California national forest says she took methamphetamine to get an energy boost after delivering her daughter.
Amber Pangborn told the Chico Enterprise-Record that her baby is healthy but Butte County Child Protective Services placed the baby in foster care. The 35-year-old Oroville woman is trying to regain custody.
Pangborn said staff at the hospital where she was treated notified social workers because of the nature of the birth. Child Protective Services officials declined to discuss the case.
In June, Pangborn delivered her baby alone in the back seat of her broken-down car in Plumas National Forest.
Pangborn's ordeal began when she went into labor and got lost in the forest while taking unfamiliar back roads to her parents' house. Her gas and cellphone service ran out.
Pangborn gave birth to her daughter, Marissa, and they were stranded for the next three days.
She survived only off three apples, a can of soda, modest amounts of water, and methamphetamine.
Pangborn told that Chico Enterprise-Record that she got methamphetamine from a man whom she had given a ride before she got lost. She said she used it to keep up her energy.
Three days into her ordeal, she decided to start a signal fire, hoping to attract some attention -- but that didn't go as planned.
"I think Mommy just started a forest fire," Pangborn recalled telling her daughter shortly after she ignited the fire.
Within hours, the quarter-acre fire was tracked by the U.S. Forest Service, and Pangborn and her daughter were found safe with help from a helicopter.
"I was crying, I was just so happy. I thought we were going to die," Pangborn said. "I was so glad someone had finally seen us and we were going to be OK."
They were admitted to Oroville Hospital, and the baby was taken to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.
After losing custody of Marissa, Pangborn said the experience has been devastating and depressing. She said her baby is healthy and thriving and she doesn't pose a danger to her daughter.
"There's no risk to my daughter or anything," Pangborn said.
She said she voluntarily gave up parental rights to three older daughters after her husband killed himself.
19 Feb ’12
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Then you have this guy:
Pooping in the wilderness is something Smokey Bear probably wouldn't have that big a problem with—but burning your toilet paper afterward is a different story. The Bureau of Land Management says a mountain biker in Idaho started a 73-acre blaze in the Boise foothills on Wednesday afternoon after setting his toilet paper alight following a "rest stop" in a ravine, NBC News reports. Fire officials say the man thought he was doing the right thing, but an ember set some dry grass on fire and the blaze, dubbed the Hull Fire, quickly spread out of control. It was contained roughly six-and-a-half hours later.
"I guess when you gotta go, you gotta go," BLM spokeswoman Carrie Bilbao tells KTVB, though she stresses that burning toilet paper in dry conditions is a very bad idea; the agency advises people to bury human waste or remove it under the "pack it in, pack it out" policy. The man, who came forward yesterday and was handed a citation for starting the fire (that's usually accompanied by a $250 fine), may also have to pay the full cost of putting it out, which the Idaho Statesman reports could be in the thousands to cover the helicopters, air tankers, and ground crews that stopped the blaze from spreading to neighborhoods. Bilbao tells theStatesman a toilet paper-related fire has occurred on BLM land at least once before. (Here are five ways to, well, poop better.)
This article originally appeared on Newser: A Cyclist Stops to Poop, Ends Up Starting Wildfire
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well that escalated quickly!
I came across this the other day that I thought was interesting
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easytapper said
Then you have this guy:Pooping in the wilderness is something Smokey Bear probably wouldn't have that big a problem with—but burning your toilet paper afterward is a different story. The Bureau of Land Management says a mountain biker in Idaho started a 73-acre blaze in the Boise foothills on Wednesday afternoon after setting his toilet paper alight following a "rest stop" in a ravine, NBC News reports. Fire officials say the man thought he was doing the right thing, but an ember set some dry grass on fire and the blaze, dubbed the Hull Fire, quickly spread out of control. It was contained roughly six-and-a-half hours later.
"I guess when you gotta go, you gotta go," BLM spokeswoman Carrie Bilbao tells KTVB, though she stresses that burning toilet paper in dry conditions is a very bad idea; the agency advises people to bury human waste or remove it under the "pack it in, pack it out" policy. The man, who came forward yesterday and was handed a citation for starting the fire (that's usually accompanied by a $250 fine), may also have to pay the full cost of putting it out, which the Idaho Statesman reports could be in the thousands to cover the helicopters, air tankers, and ground crews that stopped the blaze from spreading to neighborhoods. Bilbao tells theStatesman a toilet paper-related fire has occurred on BLM land at least once before. (Here are five ways to, well, poop better.)
This article originally appeared on Newser: A Cyclist Stops to Poop, Ends Up Starting Wildfire
looks like he is getting fined
18 Feb ’12
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PARADISE, Calif. (KCRA and AP) —A pregnant woman who became lost and gave birth in a Northern California national forest says she took methamphetamine to get an energy boost after delivering her daughter.
So the real story is probably "Pregnant woman, high on meth, drives around until she runs out of gas, then delivers baby in the middle of nowhere. Disoriented woman was actually stranded for 20 minutes, not 3 days. Starts forest fire when she smokes another bowl. When confronted by hospital staff for positive drug screen, woman also cooks up story."
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