On Saturday, three days into her ordeal, she decided to start a signal fire, hoping to attract some attention – but that didn’t go as planned.
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A 35-year-old Northern California woman was rescued over the weekend days after becoming stranded in Plumas National Forest and being forced to give birth without any assistance, KTLA sister station KTXL reported. Pangborn describes her baby’s arrival this way: “I laid out a sleeping back in the backseat, lied down, gripped the handle above the back window and gave birth to my daughter”.
As Pangborn drives, her gas depletes, her cell phone loses its service and her labor intensifies.
Oddly, Pangborn explains she cut the umbilical cord on Friday because she was anxious Marissa would starve.
Pregnant hiker Amber Pangborn gave birth in the woods.
She only had four apples and a small amount of water with her. To make things worse, she had to fight off wasps and mosquitoes.
“I was trying to get them not to sting her, but I got stung,” Pangborn said.
While waiting for someone to show up and bring help, Panghorn claims to have faced a variety of calamities, including bees stinging at the baby’s placenta. “I was looking at Marisa and was like, ‘I think Mommy just started a forest fire, ’” she said.
Offered Pangborn’s father Allan Williams via actionnewsnow: ‘I was so relieved (when he heard Pangborn and the baby were safe),’.
Pangborn started a fire in a desperate call for help but the flames quickly grew out of control.
The fire was put out and Pangborn and her daughter were rescued.
The USA Forest Service says it found a mother and an infant Saturday while responding to a brush fire in the Plumas National Forest. “I was just so glad that someone had seen us and we were going to be okay”.
“I was just crying, I thought we were going to die,” she said.
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Amber and baby Marissa were admitted into an Oroville hospital on the same day. I truly believe I witnessed a modern-day miracle.
