It doesn't matter where you go...take you cell phone (or a camera with a flash,) and make sure the battery is charged. Now, I know that sounds like a command, and I am not trying to be to be forceful. But that little device could come in really handy.
Just down the road in Knoxville. A couple got lost in a heavily wooded area, and were rescued thanks to their cell phone - not the phone itself, but the camera part, too. Around 8:30, Sunday, the tandem alerted emergency workers that they had lost their way. So, police used a helicopter with an infrared device that detects body heat but were still unable to find them...because of the trees and all the leaves still on them.
By this time, the hikers' flashlight batteries were losing power. So, the wife told authorities by cell phone that she would use the camera flash on the phone to alert the helicopter pilot. it worked!!! He saw the flash using night-vision goggles.
Then, the helicopter hovered over the hikers' location until workers reached them around 9:20 p.m.
Awesome!
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