A Alaska man survived three qualified hours suspended by a 700 -pound rock with slight injuries only through stupid luck, “great wife”, a sudden cell service and a tourist helicopter, according to rescue workers and reports.
Kiel Morris, 61, said the street who survived the ordeal, who is one of the most fortunate men alive.
“Fortunately, I have a great wife,” he told Associated Press on Thursday.
Maurice and his wife Joe Rob decided last Saturday to raise a club in the south to the south of Ancorag to avoid mobilizing tourists visiting the Kenai Peninsula during the holidays.
They chose an isolated path behind the state prison instead, according to reports.
Morris said he tried to avoid brutal rocks – which reach 1,000 pounds – along the Creek bank.
But after that, without warning, the rock of 700 pounds fell and confused him a confrontation at the bottom in the frozen creek, according to reports and a reporter of the rescue workers.
Morris fell below the 20 -foot bridge in the water, and then was destroyed by what rescue workers described as “rock collapse.”
“Everything, the whole side slipped from under me,” Morris told AP.
Through stupid luck, it was surrounded by rocks that support the weight of the rock with an area of 700 pounds-the only thing that prevented him from being crushed.
He said that the besieged tourist felt severe pain in the left leg and continued to expect a terrible moment that the thigh bone would hunt.
“When it happened for the first time, I was doubting that there is a good result,” Morest generated the director.
His wife, a former state soldier and a police officer, attempted to get him out of the rock without success before she left to find a cell signal and invite help.
This is when Maurice had another blow.
After walking just 300 yards, his wife managed to find cell service and call 911, relying on her professional experience to send GPS coordinates to send, according to reports.
A volunteer in the neighboring Beir Kreik Fire Department listened to the invitation while working in the Siwar Holcopter Tours and a helicopter fleeting to the scene.
Firefighters are unable to reach the scene through their vehicles in all terrain will eventually jump from the helicopter, according to Cries.
By the time the rescue workers arrived, Morris was a decrease in the body of the ice water, Cruz said.
His wife was holding his head from the water to allow him to breathe.
“I think that if we do not have this private helicopter help us, it took at least another 45 minutes to reach it, and I am not sure that he had a lot of time,” the firefighter said.
Firefighters used the airbags to raise the rock slightly.
“But then it became only brutal force from” one, two, three, paid, “said Chris.” Seven players managed to raise it enough to withdraw the victim. “
Mores rescue workers put in a basket and transferred a helicopter from the National Guard in Alaska to a nearby hospital, where he spent two nights recovering from minor injuries.
Chris said: “I completely expected the body to recover, and it does not walk without scratching it,” Chris said.
