Missing Teen Girl Found In Woods Alive on Last Day of Search.

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Rescuers miraculously find a young girl on the last day of their search and ruin a great setup for a true crime episode 

 

A missing Washington teenager who vanished last month after she ran out of gas was found alive Saturday in a remote section of the Cascade Mountains, authorities said.

Speaking to reporters, King County sheriff’s spokesman Ryan Abbott said it was a “miracle” that Giovanna Fuda, 18, was found after a week-long search.

“She’s in stable condition,” he said. “This is a remarkable ending

Fuda was last seen on July 24, when she left her home in the Seattle suburb of Maple Valley without telling her parents where she was going. Her car was found abandoned the next night near a mountain pass roughly two hours northeast of Maple Valley.

“We don’t know why she was up there,” her father, Bob Fuda, told NBC affiliate KING last week.

Authorities said the car, a 2008 Toyota Corolla, had run out of gas. Her purse was still in the vehicle but her cellphone was gone. The King County Sheriff’s Office initially described her disappearance as “suspicious.”

Abbott said the area was a dead zone for cell service so it was difficult to trace her location through her phone’s GPS. Dense brush also made it impossible to search with a helicopter, he said.

On Saturday, after a bloodhound tracked her scent more than a mile down the highway, a search and rescue team trekking up a ravine and following a creek found her notebook, shoes and clothing, Abbott said. They eventually found her, too, a few miles from her car, he said. She was alert and conscious but incoherent.

“We don’t know how she got up in that area,” he said, adding that she may have gotten turned around while walking to get gas. He said she likely survived by drinking water from the creek, but she had no food with her and he wasn’t sure what she ate.

A family friend who was involved in the search, Jeff White, told KING that Saturday was the last day of the rescue effort

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Damn she is lucky.

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Bloodhound. Dogs are awesome.

Looks pretty hippie. Was she hunting for 'shrooms?

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2 hours ago, woohorn said:

Looks pretty hippie. Was she hunting for How many 'shrooms did she eat?

 

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Its always in the last place you look 

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She auditioning for Alone?

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4 hours ago, woohorn said:

Bloodhound. Dogs are awesome.

Looks pretty hippie. Was she hunting for 'shrooms?

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"I didn't know I needed to put gas in a car.   I'm a fucking moron."

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Nobody but her EVER drives in the highway / country road that she ran her car out of fuel?

She doesn’t stay by her vehicle that’s on a road?

There is more to this story.  
 

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Of course it was the last day of the search, they found her..... d'uhhh.

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6 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

following a creek found her notebook, shoes and clothing,

Was she found naked?

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i ran out of gas, so to be rescued, i thought i'd go hike away from this well traveled paved path that the government spends millions on and see if i could find any people among the ferns.

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You folks underestimate the idiocracy of young people.

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Some more details. 
 

 

A day after search-and-rescue crews found Gia Fuda, an 18-year-old Maple Valley woman who’d been missing more than a week, alive in the deep woods near Stevens Pass, her parents said their daughter was scraped, scratched and dehydrated, but otherwise in good health.

“She’s beat up pretty good,” said her father, Bob Fuda. “She wandered around in some pretty steep and dense terrain up there and at one point slid down a bank. But there’s no broken bones.”

Gia Fuda remained at a Monroe hospital, where she was resting Sunday afternoon and being treated for dehydration, added her mother, Kristin Fuda.

“She’s doing well, they’re just filling her up with lots of fluids,” she said.

Since being rescued Saturday afternoon, Gia, who left the family’s Maple Valley home to take a drive early on July 24, has told her parents that she got lost in the woods after her car ran out of gas, the couple said.

“She locked up the car, grabbed her keys, cellphone and little bag and started off toward town, trying to get cell reception,” Bob Fuda said. “At one point, she decided she was going to head up into the trails and try to get back into town, but little did she know that town was quite a ways off.”

His daughter “got turned around and lost,” and ended up spending the next eight days “wandering around up there for miles,” her father said.

Rescuers found her Saturday afternoon, sitting on a rock next to a creek up a steep, wooded ravine about 1.2 miles from where her car was found, 10 miles east of Skykomish on Highway 2, sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Ryan Abbott said.

“All she said was, ‘I don’t know where I am,’ ” Abbott said. “She hadn’t eaten in so long that she wasn’t making a lot of sense, so we just rushed her off to the hospital to get her some treatment.”

For eight days, search-and-rescue teams from multiple jurisdictions fanned out into the woods of the Cascade foothills, searching without luck. 

About 50 volunteers searched each day, using a helicopter, several dog teams and rescuers specialized in mountain rescue techniques and tracking skills, said Jen Brenes, president of King County Search and Rescue. 

The teams also tried to calculate where the missing woman might be based on her cellphone activity, but the area is a dead zone for cell service, Abbott said. Bloodhounds had tracked her scent 1.75 miles west from where her car was found. But then, “for some reason she turned into the woods,” Abbott said.

Then, Saturday afternoon, as rescuers methodically worked their way through a search pattern based on where her car was found, volunteers sweeping through a ravine along the Scenic Creek recovered a notebook with Gia’s name written in it, Brenes said. Several more personal items — her car keys, some clothing and a Bible — also were found.

“That caused us to redirect our attention to that area,” Brenes said. 

A mountain rescue team with technical climbing skills ultimately located the young woman several hundred feet up the ravine, “seated on a rock right on the creek,” Abbott said.

It’s very unusual for us to find someone alive after eight days,” Brenes said. “That doesn’t happen very often.”

When she was reunited with her parents, who were in the area for the search, Gia’s first words were “I’m fine,” said her mother. 

“She thought she’d only been up there three days,” Kristin Fuda said. “She’d totally lost track of time.”

Gia drank water from the creek, but other than a few berries, she hadn’t eaten since getting lost, her parents said. At night, she sheltered next to trees, rocks or in caves, her father said. 

Kristin and Bob Fuda said Thursday that they had dinner with their daughter on July 23 at their Maple Valley home. 

The next morning, they said, she left the house around 8 or 9 a.m. without mentioning where she was going, although her parents said that wasn’t out of the ordinary. When she didn’t return and they hadn’t heard from her by that night, they called the police.

“We’re just so grateful; that search-and-rescue team is an amazing group of volunteers,” Bob Fuda said.

“She’s very lucky,” Abbott added. “We’re absolutely thrilled.”

Early Saturday evening, Kristin Fuda updated her Facebook page. 

There was no text, simply an earlier photograph of her smiling daughter.

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1 hour ago, VABuckeye said:

Was she found naked?

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2 hours ago, slorch said:

"I didn't know I needed to put gas in a car.   I'm a fucking moron."

In all the years we drove out to Alpine/Marfa, I'm surprised we never came across anybody who had skipped the gas stations in Fort Stockton, etc.

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Girl was last soon on coffee shop camera and her interactions at the shop suggested that she was totally sober. 
 

also, when some people become delirious and hypothermic they can feel as tho they are burning. There have been cases of people finding skiers and lost hikers in snow frozen to death in only their underwear. 

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True.  It happens in the high mountains when a mountaineer is freezing to death.  They start taking off their clothes.

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Isn't every lost person that's recovered found on the last day of the search?

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Wandered for miles, for 8 days lost in the woods, but was found 1.2 miles from her car?  

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Wandered for miles, for 8 days lost in the woods, but was found 1.2 miles from her car?  

Really, really mountainous terrain. 

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“Oh god not the woods.” -Norm MacDonald

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cant wait for the Lifetime movie about this to be made.

 

"She got mad at her parents... then it happened"

 

Hell,  it can be filmed in less than a week with total social distancing in place....      all the movie needs to do is show her walking around dazed for 2 hours including commercials,  the ladies would love that

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7 hours ago, woohorn said:

Bloodhound. Dogs are awesome.

Looks pretty hippie. Was she hunting for 'shrooms?

My guess is she was looking for Edward.

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2 hours ago, VABuckeye said:

Was she found naked?

God I love Surly 

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Now I turn around and find I am lost in the woods. North is south, right is left when you’re gone. 

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Maybe she was, like, exactly where she was supposed to be.

And we, who sit inside these boxes we call "home" or "office"?

Maybe we are the ones who truly need to find our way.

Maybe we are the ones who are "lost."

Did you ever think about that maaaan?

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24 minutes ago, Bevo said:

My guess is she was looking for Edward.

Obviously not a Team Jacob member...

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9 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

without telling her parents where she was going

Glad she is safe.  This part above, can't be stated enough on how important this is.  I spent a lot of time hiking in Big Bend when I was younger.  Rangers always impressed upon us how big the park is, and how people die each year from not respecting the land and not having a point of reference for the rangers on where to start their searches.  

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Only half have the navigation chromosome, and maybe someone gave her bad directions?

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/07/14/women-stranded-muskegon-river-tubing/87074472/

Three women were stranded overnight on the banks of the Muskegon River earlier this week after a first-time tubing trip turned into a 20-plus hour ordeal, according to the Muskegon Township Fire Department.

The women, all in their 20s and from Muskegon and Muskegon Heights, set out alone at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Deputy Fire Chief Bob Grabinski said. They were rescued by fire officials around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.

“They went and bought some tubes and they went to the Maple Island Bridge, which is one of the access points to the river, a popular spot,” Grabinski said Thursday. “They were misinformed: Somebody said (the river) makes a big loop and they’d come right back to their car.”

Grabinski said the women did not know the individual who offered the faulty advice, and no one has come forward to claim credit. The women were unfamiliar with the river and had never gone tubing.

“They thought it was great,” Grabinski said of the alleged circular river. “They believed it.”

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Just now, BabaYaga said:

Glad she is safe.  This part above, can't be stated enough on how important this is.  I spent a lot of time hiking in Big Bend when I was younger.  Rangers always impressed upon us how big the park is, and how people die each year from not respecting the land and not having a point of reference for the rangers on where to start their searches.  

Fucking A. You need to stay with your fucking car and if you do leave to get gas, leave a note. I’m mean seriously- basic elementary school safety shit. 
 

seems the girl told her parents she initially turned into the woods to climb up and get cell service. No one is saying why the hell she was out there in the first place.

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2 hours ago, VABuckeye said:

Was she found naked?

Yeah, another story said they found a note:

Hello Muda,

Hello Fuda,

Here I am at,

Camp GraNuda

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2 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

Fucking A. You need to stay with your fucking car and if you do leave to get gas, leave a note. I’m mean seriously- basic elementary school safety shit. 
 

seems the girl told her parents she initially turned into the woods to climb up and get cell service. No one is saying why the hell she was out there in the first place.

Yep.  Good 'ol Mother Nature DOES.  NOT.  GIVE.  A.  SHIT.  You are a walking bag of meat with a single built in advantage - your brain.  So use it.  You turn an ankle, get lost, get sick, etc. it's your ass.  I do a little high mountain hunting but know a lot of guys that do it full time.  They are obsessed and in phenomenal shape, and they are all to a man paranoid about the mountains and what can happen.  Think triple redundancy on everything for 7-10 day hunts.  First thing they will tell you, if you are relying on anything that needs batteries or a charge, you have no place up there.  

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must have been some great lsd

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1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Isn't every lost person that's recovered found on the last day of the search?

Very similar to all of the deer hunting shows.....it was the last day of the 37 year, 9 month and 4 day deer hunt and Larry's patience was starting to run thin.  The sun was going down and the season was over at sundown.  Larry hadn't left the blind the entire time and was almost ready to throw in the towel when the deer of a lifetime that he had been after finally appeared at 1,085 yards uphill with a 97 knot crosswind.  Larry took the shot and bullseye! knocked him det.  (now another commercial from our sponsors Yeti, Polaris  and Mossy Oak beef jerky.

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While the gag is absolutely adorable, the “last day of search” referred to the fact the expert mountain climbing search teams would not be funded after Saturday.

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7 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Very similar to all of the deer hunting shows.....it was the last day of the 37 year, 9 month and 4 day deer hunt and Larry's patience was starting to run thin.  The sun was going down and the season was over at sundown.  Larry hadn't left the blind the entire time and was almost ready to throw in the towel when the deer of a lifetime that he had been after finally appeared at 1,085 yards uphill with a 97 knot crosswind.  Larry took the shot and bullseye! knocked him det.  (now another commercial from our sponsors Yeti, Polaris  and Mossy Oak beef jerky.

How I wish they went

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4 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

You underestimate the draw of great weed, shrooms, or whatever her particular flavor might have been.

The thing is, you don't have to go far to get shrooms, and weed is even closer.

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6 hours ago, deadshank said:

Nobody but her EVER drives in the highway / country road that she ran her car out of fuel?

She doesn’t stay by her vehicle that’s on a road?

There is more to this story.  
 

Yeah, I'm thinking something else. Run out of gas and head into the wild to find a station or help? Took phone but not her purse. Doesn't add up.

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“She’s doing well, they’re just filling her up with lots of fluids,”

Glad I could help.

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She must write in her Bible a lot for it to be called a journal.

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They releases pictures of her journal

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I love this place. Always a hand full of people second guessing any story out there. 

Not saying she's not lying about something, just saying i find y'all assholes funny. 

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24 minutes ago, BERT said:

I love this place. Always a hand full of people second guessing any story out there. 

Not saying she's not lying about something, just saying i find y'all assholes funny. 

The alternative is to say she's an outstandingly, stupid, human being. I prefer she was on shrooms or Sid, and just kinda wandered off in to nature..  much more Disney like.  

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28 minutes ago, BERT said:

I love this place. Always a hand full of people second guessing any story out there. 

Not saying she's not lying about something, just saying i find y'all assholes funny. 

Are you the kind of person who just takes everything at face value, regardless of how much shit doesn't add up?

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that road she was on is extremely remote. I drove it overnight coming back from eastern Washington and saw at least 15 deer next to and just standing in the middle of the road. maybe 1 big rig coming the opposite way. zero cell service for an hour at least maybe more.

probably just an impatient, dumb decision thinking going up would get to cell service. I'm more curious where she was going with a bag packed and not telling parents, driving that far out on that road. There is NOTHING out there and not much in that direction. Running out of gas and making a dumb decision in the middle of the night, i totally buy that. But where the fuck was she going.

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4 minutes ago, cam4mav said:

that road she was on is extremely remote. I drove it overnight coming back from eastern Washington and saw at least 15 deer next to and just standing in the middle of the road. maybe 1 big rig coming the opposite way. zero cell service for an hour at least maybe more.

probably just an impatient, dumb decision thinking going up would get to cell service. I'm more curious where she was going with a bag packed and not telling parents, driving that far out on that road. There is NOTHING out there and not much in that direction. Running out of gas and making a dumb decision in the middle of the night, i totally buy that. But where the fuck was she going.

Middle of the night ? I'm car camping and getting a plan together the next morning. It's Summer she wasn't gonna freeze to death.

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7 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

Girl was last soon on coffee shop camera and her interactions at the shop suggested that she was totally sober. 
 

also, when some people become delirious and hypothermic they can feel as tho they are burning. There have been cases of people finding skiers and lost hikers in snow frozen to death in only their underwear. 

 

Opening day, Antelope season, Valley County, Montana. 1985.  Two young hunters from the University of Michigan drove to northeastern Montana to try their luck at antelope hunting.  On opening day, one lets the other out and they agree to meet at such and such point at such and such time.  He didn't show up.  When darkness fell, the driver headed to the check station to report his friend as missing, and a search party was summoned.  They searched all night (27 degrees) and in to the morning to no avail.  A rancher's wife from out in the boonies saw something orange against a snow fence as she was driving the forty miles to the nearest grocery store.  A couple of hours later, as she was returning with her bags, the orange object had not moved.  She got out to investigate, and found the barely conscious Michigander in only his underwear and hi-vis hunter's orange plastic vest. The ambulance was summoned, and young Natty Bumpo whisked to safety.  In the ambulance, core temp was reported as 91 degrees, and his bp was about 70/40.  His bare feet were filled with thorns and mildly frostbitten, and his head was neatly creased from the path of an accidentally fired bullet from his .247.  It was theorized that he had discharged his weapon while climbing through a barbed wire fence and skimmed right down the part of his hair, and his badly concussed self reasoned that the colder he got, the more clothes he needed to shed. By the time he reached the ER, he was warming up and becoming more lucid.  CAT scan was normal, CPK (which demonstrates muscle injury) was 27,000 and thankfully kidney function was still nominal. About the time the doctor (me) was finishing his assessment, his frantic mother was on the phone.  I reassured her the best I could, convinced her that he would be home hail and hearty in nothing flat, and calmed her fears.  She thanked me profusely and asked if she could speak to him, so I handed the phone to the still groggy dude.  "Hi  Mom" he said, then scrunched his face in agony as he moved the receiver further and further from his ear.  Everyone in the room could hear the screaming shrieking and unbelievable blue tirade of reprimand coming from Mom.  Her language was befitting of the saltiest of merchant marines-it was indeed a thing of beauty.  Eventually the furor subsided and she allowed that she would leave immediately for northern Montana to retrieve her damaged son.  After hanging up, his buddy, who had been standing quietly in the corner all morning, approached the gurney and asked how he was feeling.  After answering positively,  unscathed college kid asks "If you're done hunting.....can I have your antelope tag"?

 

tldr-there are many strange sights in the northern lights. People do weird stuff when concussed and or hypothermic. Hunter's orange saves lives.

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21 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

You are a male correct? 

You're planning and ideas don't belong in the discussion given the sex of the subject of the search.

Anyone remember the Hawaii chick that got "lost" when the way back to civilization was as complex as walking down hill? 

Yeah, well, she was fulla shit too. Dumb and fulla shit. Wonder how that survival app her friend was developing is working out.

Last time I checked, yes.   

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2 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Middle of the night ? I'm car camping and getting a plan together the next morning. It's Summer she wasn't gonna freeze to death.

I’ve been up in that area and can say that it can still get brisk in the evening at this time of year. It can be extremely hot and taxing during the day and then you get drizzled on for 2 hours and then it can dip in to the low 60s. If you don’t have some quality waterproof stuff you can get into real trouble.