72-Year-Old Woman Rescued After Living 9 Days in the Arizona Wilderness

On April 3, officials located her blue Ford Fusion, but after two days of extensive searching, they couldn’t locate her.
72-Year-Old Woman Rescued After Living 9 Days in the Arizona Wilderness
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Ann Rodgers was on her way to Phoenix to surprise her daughter and grandchildren when she ran out of gas and found herself stranded on a remote stretch of road near Canyon Creek in Arizona on March 31.

The creek sits on the White River Indian Reservation, where she climbed the fence and walked around trying to find cell phone service.

It was then that the 72-year-old became lost.

For the next nine days and nights, she and her dog Queenie ate plants and drank pond water.