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Monday 27 May 2019

Hawaii woman rescued from forest told self not to give up

Associated Press was leading me another
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — way — and I have a very
A Hawaii woman who strong gut instinct,” Eller
was found alive in a forest said. “So, I said, my car is
on Maui island after go- this way and I’m just going
ing missing more than two to keep going until I reach
weeks ago said she at times it.” She said she kept trying
struggled not to give up. to get back to her car but
Amanda Eller told the New wound up going deeper
York Times that despite into the jungle.
these moments, she told During her ordeal, she fell
herself “the only option I off a cliff, which led her to
had was life or death.” fracture her leg and tear
“I heard this voice that said, the meniscus in her knee,
‘If you want to live, keep a friend, Katie York, told
going.’ And as soon as I the Times. “I looked up and
would doubt my intuition they were right on top of
and try to go another way me,” Eller told the Times. “I
than where it was telling was like, ‘Oh my God,’ and
me, something would stop I just broke down and start-
me, a branch would fall on ed bawling.”
me, I’d stub my toe, or I’d Javier Cantellops said he
trip,” said Eller, 35, a physi- From left, Sarah Haynes, rescue lead Javier Cantellops, and Julia Eller, mother of Amanda Eller, was searching for Eller from
cal therapist and yoga in- speaks during a news conference about the rescue of Amanda Eller on Saturday, May 25, 2019 a helicopter along with
structor. “So I was like, ‘OK, in Wailuku, Maui. Chris Berquist and Troy Hel-
there is only one way to Associated Press mers when they spotted
go.’ “ on May 8. Her white Toyo- parents offered a $10,000 off the path at one point her about 3:45 p.m. Friday
Eller was found injured Fri- ta RAV4 was found in the reward to encourage peo- to rest, and when she re- near the Kailua reservoir,
day in the Makawao Forest forest parking lot with her ple to find her. sumed hiking, she got according to Maui Police
Reserve. phone and wallet inside. Eller told the Times that she turned around. Department spokesman Lt.
Eller, who is from the Maui Hundreds of volunteers had intended to go on a “I wanted to go back the Gregg Okamoto and the
town of Haiku, went missing searched for her. Eller’s short trail walk. She went way I’d come, but my gut Honolulu Star-Advertiser.q

Huge firefighting aircraft ready for wildfire season

Associated Press aircraft, is ready for the up- in just 13 minutes. “It’s a
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The coming wildfire season. force multiplier,” chief pilot
Global SuperTanker, the The Arizona Republic re- Cliff Hale said. “When you
world’s largest firefighting ports that the Boeing 747- need to build containment
lines fast, having that very
large capacity can really
help the guys out on the
ground.”
Hale was a captain with
now defunct Evergreen
Airlines when he came up
with the idea to turn a 747
into a tanker. An early ver-
sion of the SuperTanker was
In this May 5, 2016, file photo, the Boeing 747-400 Global
SuperTanker drops half a load of its 19,400-gallon capacity first used during a 2009 fire
during a ceremony at Colorado Springs, Colo. in Alaska that burned more
Associated Press than 500,000 acres (202,347
400 series passenger jet where. hectares).
converted for firefighting The plane can dump up That first SuperTanker was
recently underwent main- to 19,200 gallons (72,678 li- destroyed for salvage after
tenance at Pinal Airpark ters) of water or retardant Evergreen went bankrupt.
outside Tucson. The retrofit- in just six seconds and fly as Scott Olson, now vice presi-
ted aircraft has been used low as 200 feet (61 meters) dent of maintenance for
to fight wildfires in Califor- above the ground to do Global SuperTanker, later
nia, Chile, Israel and else- its work. It can be refilled found a new plane.q