Workers doing maintenance for NB Power found Jenny McLaughlin late Tuesday after hearing her faint calls for help
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A New Brunswick woman says she was able to survive in woods northeast of the province for nearly two weeks by drinking rainwater from puddles and eating wild berries.
“I survived basically off of rain water and puddle water,” she said in an interview Thursday by text message. “Anything I could find basically, and was lucky there were orange wild berries … to eat around the 4th, 5th day.”“I found shelter in the trees where I could but had no phone or lighter for support or to depend on,” she wrote.
The company posted on Facebook: “Employees were in the process of moving locations with the aid of a helicopter to prepare for the next day’s events. Our employee disembarked off the helicopter and when the helicopter flew away to gather more material our employee could hear a faint cry for help. The quick-thinking lineman immediately called for help and notified the rest of the crew.
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