Lesson 1 Bonding with Others
BREAKING NEWS
An Unusual Rescue Effort
A missing hiker named ____ Compean was found safe on Tuesday by a rescue team in Angeles National Forest.
It turns out that a photo played a key role in saving his ____.
Let’s go ____ to Marissa Reynolds for more details on this story.
Thank you, Thomas. I’m ____ here at the entrance of Angeles National Forest.
As you ____ heard, Rene Compean was recently rescued from this forest.
Compean, an experienced hiker ____ knew the area well, went on a hike alone on April 12.
However, a recent forest fire had destroyed ____ signs, which caused him to take a wrong turn and get lost.
He ____ shouting for help and even wrote SOS on the ground in case a plane or helicopter passed by.
He had ____ to hike for only about two hours, but night was coming.
It started getting ____ windy and the temperature was dropping quickly.
Compean was deep in the forest
Compean was deep in the forest, so his cell phone couldn’t get a ____.
To make matters ____, its battery was nearly dead.
He climbed up to a higher spot and ____ a weak signal.
He used the ____ of his battery to send a text message to his friend.
In the ____, he said that he was lost and needed help.
He also sent a picture to show his ____.
Compean’s friend shared the message and the picture with the local ____.
When the ____ police were informed of the missing hiker, they immediately sent a rescue team.
Despite ____ through the night, they still didn’t have any idea where Compean was.
In the picture, his legs were hanging over the edge of a canyon with rocks and ____ 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 ____ to the weak signal, and his location settings 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 ____ to use social media to find out if anyone could find clues in the picture.
They posted the picture and asked if ____ recognized the scenery.
The picture shared by the police was seen by a Californian ____ Ben Kuo.
One of his hobbies is examining satellite images to track ____ fires and informing people of potential dangers.
He also enjoys determining where ____ were taken and where movies were filmed.
When he saw the ____ of Compean, he was immediately interested.
When Kuo saw the black ash
When Kuo saw the black ash on Compean’s legs, it reminded ____ of a recent forest fire.
This helped him to infer Compean’s approximate ____.
Kuo was ____ familiar with the area because he had tracked the fire before and had checked the features of the area in satellite images.
From the plants and ____ in Compean’s picture, Kuo guessed that it must be the south side of the mountain.
The ____ side does not have any green valleys 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 ____ indicated by Kuo.
Thanks to Kuo’s unusual skills, ____ was rescued unharmed.
He later thanked ____ on a video call.
The local police are now reminding hikers who hike alone to inform others of their planned route and to always ____ a paper map.
This is ____ Reynolds from LA. Now back to the studio.