Woman buried in snow for 3 days found alive
Story Highlights
Donna Molnar went missing after she left her home to go grocery shopping
Housewife had been buried in snow for 72 hours when a rescue dog found her
She's in serious condition, being treated for hypothermia, severe frostbite
Dog, who had been rescued himself, will be rewarded with a T-bone steak
By Ashley Fantz
CNN
(CNN) -- No one expected to find Donna Molnar alive.
Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton, who had left her home three days earlier in the middle of a blizzard to grocery shop.
Alongside his search-and-rescue dog Ace, Ray Lau on Monday tramped through the thick, ice-covered brush of a farmer's field, not far from where Molnar's van had been found a day earlier.
He kept thinking: Negative-20 winds? This is a search for a body.
"Then, oh, all of a sudden, Ace bolted off," said Lau. "He stooped and looked down at the snow and just barked, barked, barked."
Lau rushed to his Dutch shepherd's side.
"There she was, there was Donna, her face was almost totally covered except for one eye staring back at me!" he said. "That was, 'Wow!' There was a thousand thoughts going through my head. It was over the top."
With one ungloved hand near her neck, Molnar, 55, mumbled and tried to scream as Lau yelled to other rescuers. Dressed in a leather coat, sweater, slacks and winter boots, Molnar was carefully extracted from a 3-foot-deep mound of snow that had apparently helped to insulate her.
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and I quote: "Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton,"
ReplyDelete200 yards from a major highway is NOT the BRUTAl BACKCOUNTRY of rural Ontario... wonder if the writer has ever left the confines of the Brutal Altitude-spaces of her upper Atlanta office??
I am glad they found her alive... but.. Anyone mention she was trying to commit Suicide?
Anonymous, why would you suggest that and then why would you make a claim like that without even putting your name?
ReplyDeleteShe was found under snow. Seems like a pretty strange way to commit suicide. Doesn't it? Did she have any cut marks on her? Did she have any drugs in her system that would suggest an attempt?
If you notice at the top of where you can leave your comments, there is mention of posting as anonymous and being taken seriously.
I am sure her family and friends are very happy she's alive but will spend Christmas in the hospital.