COUPLE, GRANDDAUGHTER FOUND SAFE.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer One family here got an early Christmas present. A North Edwards couple and their granddaughter were found safe Tuesday morning by search teams after they spent two nights stranded in a cabin in a remote section of the southern Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada, mountain range, Spain Sierra Nevada (syā`rä nāvä`thä), chief mountain range of S Spain, in Granada prov., running from east to west for c.60 mi (100 km), parallel to the Mediterranean Sea. . Isreal, 66, and Betty Lou Betty Lou is a Muppet from the show Sesame Street. She has blonde braided hair. She is friendly and has many dolls of many ethnicities but she has one favorite which she carries everywhere. Ortiz, 65, and their 9-year-old granddaughter, Alicia, left North Edwards on Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
On the return trip, their car became stuck near Jawbone jaw·bone n. The maxilla or, especially, the mandible. Canyon and Kelso Valley roads - rugged terrain about 16 miles from Highway 14. ``My mom hit some dirt and got stuck in soft dirt,'' said Jose Ortiz, the couple's son and Alicia's uncle. ``They went back to our friend's home and took the lock off the door and made a fire.'' The Kern County Sheriff's Department was called Monday when Jose Ortiz discovered his parents and niece had not returned. Search and rescue teams from Kern Valley and east Kern County searched through the night for the couple. The search teams found the family at 5:15 a.m. Tuesday. ``I'm very grateful everybody is OK,'' Jose Ortiz said. ``My mom wants to know who they (the rescuers) are so she can thank them. She is very grateful and they were very nice.'' |
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