Missing Girl Found After Spending Night In The Woods
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Officials in Franklin County say a 17-year-old
girl who got lost while hiking on a trail near a campsite was found
unharmed after spending the night in the woods.
Lacy Shires became lost near the Shores Lake area in Franklin
County around 6 p.m. Sunday. Search teams looked for the girl for
more than 12 hours before finding her miles from her family`s
campsite yesterday morning.
Search and rescue teams from Franklin, Madison, Crawford and
Sebastian counties helped in the search through the rough terrain.
Officials say Shires was thirsty and had plenty of bug bites,
but she was in good spirits.
Authorities said Shires somehow left the hiking trail and
searched all night for a main road. She walked an estimated 14
miles before she was found.
