FLORENCE — A woman who got separated from her boyfriend while picking mushrooms near Herman Peak Road northeast of Florence was rescued Tuesday by the Lane County Search and Rescue Team.
The sheriff’s office received a report Monday afternoon of a man who hiked out of the woods to a house in the Mercer Lake area. He said he had been separated from his girlfriend a few days prior and that she was “believed to still be lost somewhere in the woods.”
A Lane County Search and Rescue Team located her late Monday evening.
The sheriff’s office said she was hypothermic and disoriented and it was difficult to move her, so rescuers decided to stabilize her and remain with her until they could hike out Tuesday morning.
At 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, rescuers were able to get the woman up to the nearest road and into an ambulance where she was taken to a hospital for treatment.
— The Eugene Reigister-Guard
