Thick fog causes woman to become disoriented
Thick fog causes woman to become disoriented
Topics:
Posted by editor Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
Viewed 761 times
0 responses 0 comments A visitor to Stallion Springs stepped outside of a friend’s home early on April 15 to let her dogs out, but soon became lost in the thick fog.
Officer Stacy Arebalo arrived at a home on Shannon Court at 7:50 a.m., where he was told that a friend from Los Angeles had possibly gotten lost as she walked her two dogs in the fog.
The woman was described as being in house slippers and a robe and was last seen near the eighth fairway of the golf course heading northwest towards Stallion Springs Drive.
“I circulated the perimeter for approximately 20 minutes with no results,” Arebalo said.
At 8:15 a.m., Arebalo called Chief Brad Burris, who ordered the Citizen Emergency Response Team (CERT) to be called out.
As the CERT team was staged at the Stallion Springs Community Services building, waiting for instructions, one member en route to the staging area observed a female in her bathrobe and slippers walking east on Spyglass Drive. The CERT member made contact with the woman, who identified herself as the missing woman.
Soon after she was found, Arebalo also made contact with the woman to confirm that she was indeed the person who was missing. Arebalo said she declined medical attention and was escorted back to her friend’s residence on Shannon Court.
Arebalo also observed two stray dogs near an adjacent residence on Shannon Court and identified them as belonging to the woman who had been lost. He was able to secure the dogs and return them to their owner.
According to Burris, the lost woman had walked almost the entire length of Spyglass Drive and was near the lodge when she was found. He said the woman had been in the cold for almost an hour and was very embarrassed.
Burris praised the work of CERT and said that with a four-man police department it’s great to have CERT’s extra support. He also said approximately 10 CERT volunteers came out to help with the search.
Burris said that good information from the public helps the department succeed in its mission to serve the residents of Stallion Springs.
“We work for the people; the more information we receive, the better we are able to serve,” he said.
Anyone wanting to join the Stallion Springs CERT team, may call Chief Burris at 822-3268.
At the request of the Stallion Springs Police Department, we did not identify the woman who became lost.
| Send to a Friend | Report a Violation |
