Lesson 1 Bonding with Others
BREAKING NEWS
An Unusual Rescue Effort
A ____ hiker named Rene Compean was found safe on Tuesday by a rescue team in Angeles National Forest.
It turns out that a ____ played a key role in saving his life.
Let’s go ____ to Marissa Reynolds for more details on this story.
Thank you, Thomas. I’m standing ____ at the entrance of Angeles National Forest.
As you just heard, Rene Compean was recently rescued from this ____.
Compean, an experienced hiker who knew the area ____, went on a hike alone on April 12.
However, a recent ____ fire had destroyed some signs, which caused him to take a wrong turn and get lost.
He tried ____ for help and even wrote SOS on the ground in case a plane or helicopter passed by.
He ____ planned to hike for only about two hours, but night was coming.
It started getting very windy and the ____ was dropping quickly.
Compean was deep in the forest
Compean was deep in the forest, so his ____ phone couldn’t get a signal.
To make matters worse, ____ battery was nearly dead.
He climbed up to a ____ spot and found a weak signal.
He used the last of his battery to ____ a text message to his friend.
In the message, he ____ that he was lost and needed help.
He also sent a picture to ____ his surroundings.
Compean’s friend shared the message and the picture with the local ____.
When the local police were informed of the missing hiker, they immediately ____ a rescue team.
Despite searching through the ____, they still didn’t have any idea where Compean was.
In the picture, his legs were ____ over the edge of a canyon with rocks and green trees.
His legs were ____ in black ash from the recent forest fires.
However, the picture didn’t help the police much because the quality was poor due to the weak signal, and his location ____ were turned off.
As Compean had already
As ____ had already spent one night in difficult conditions, the police worried about his spending a second night.
So they decided to use social ____ to find out if anyone could find clues in the picture.
They posted the ____ and asked if anyone recognized the scenery.
The picture shared by the police was seen by a Californian named ____ Kuo.
One of his hobbies is examining satellite images to track forest fires and informing ____ of potential dangers.
He also enjoys determining where pictures were taken and where ____ were filmed.
When he saw the picture of ____, he was immediately interested.
When Kuo saw the black ash
When Kuo saw the black ash on Compean’s legs, it reminded him of a recent forest ____.
This helped him to infer ____ approximate location.
Kuo was very familiar with the area because he had tracked the fire before and had checked the features of the area in satellite ____.
From the plants and ____ in Compean’s picture, Kuo guessed that it must be the south side of the mountain.
The north side does not have any green ____ like those in the picture.
As a final step, Kuo compared the view in Compean’s ____ with more satellite images.
Finally, he found a match and provided the police with Compean’s probable ____.
The police sent a rescue helicopter to the location and found Compean less than a mile away from the area indicated by ____.
Thanks to Kuo’s unusual skills, ____ was rescued unharmed.
He later thanked Kuo on a ____ call.
The local police are now reminding hikers who hike alone to ____ others of their planned route and to always bring a paper map.
This is Marissa Reynolds from LA. Now back to the ____.