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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After 3 weeks of not knowing wherever their girl was, Bobby and Fredrina Slaton person yet received the telephone telephone they had been praying for. Their daughter, 27-year-old Tiffany Slaton is live and safe.
Tiffany had gone missing successful the mountains of Fresno County portion hiking during what she told her parents, was a bucket database adventure.
Her dada Bobby, recounts the telephone telephone helium got from his girl connected Wednesday, the archetypal clip helium spoke to her connected the telephone since April.
"She said, I'm sorry," Bobby said affectional implicit repeating the telephone call, "she said 'Dad, I'm alive, and I'm sorry, but I'm alive, and I wanted to telephone you and fto you cognize that I'm alive' and I asked due to the fact that I didn't privation to get my hopes up, I asked 'who was this,' and she says, 'This is Tiffany' and that was, that was it."
At the clip of the call, the Slaton's were preparing to marque the travel retired to the Fresno County mountains to articulation the search, present the the Fresno County Sheriff's deputies were scaling down their operations.
Fredrina Slaton says they were astatine a covering store, looking for wintertime apparel for the mountains.
"Bobby was crying and I didn't know what was going on, and I conscionable grabbed idiosyncratic and said 'can I hug you?' And I did. I was crying and hugging," she said.
They had planned to alert retired Thursday, and present alternatively than coming present to search, they're coming present to celebrate.
"This is 1 of the champion day presents that Tiffany could receive, due to the fact that time is her birthday. Happy Birthday Tiffany!" they accidental together.
Fredrina says it had been unspeakable not knowing wherever her girl was connected Mother's Day, making Tiffany's day solemnisation adjacent much special.
Her parents accidental they had past heard from tiffany connected Easter Sunday, April 20, but soon after, she stopped replying. She was officially reported missing connected April 29.
Once the hunt started, eyewitnesses accidental they saw Tiffany connected April 24 adjacent the aged Cressman's General Store but hadn't been spotted since.
Then- video was recovered of her connected a webcam successful China Peak connected April 20th, the aforesaid time her parents past got successful interaction with her. Since then, nary caller video was found, and nary different sightings had been reported since April 24.
The FCSO had released videos of her riding her motorcycle earlier she was reported missing, to effort to assistance make leads successful the case. Her ma says seeing the webcam video from China Peak was troubling.
"That was truly hard for maine due to the fact that I don't I didn't cognize if that would beryllium my past clip seeing her," she said.
But thankfully, it won't be. On Wednesday snowplows cleared the roadworthy to Kaiser Pass from Lake Edison. With that snowpack clear, proprietor of Vermillion Valley Resort Christopher Gutierrez decided helium could yet cheque connected his spot and commencement getting his rentals acceptable for the summertime season.
"We spot the doorway unfastened and, and I spot immoderate shoes down there. I'm like, okay, well, it's conscionable a hiker who decided to, you know, clasp up successful the blizzard that we had that erstwhile night. And truthful arsenic soon arsenic we commencement making our mode there, present comes Tiffany pops out, cervid successful the headlights," Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez says, Tiffany went successful for a hug and knew she was safe. He says he's not definite if she knows however agelong she was gone, oregon conscionable however galore radical were looking for her. He says she had been surviving disconnected of leeks she recovered successful the forest, and connected apical of being dehydrated, she was starving and asked for a peanut food and jelly sandwich.
"We happened to person made a market tally the time earlier picking up supplies for the resort. And you know, conscionable to get done the day. And for immoderate reason, we picked peanut food and jelly," helium added.
He's shocked by her survival, traveling implicit 50 miles by herself from wherever she was past spotted. He says from what helium learned from her connected the thrust to deputies, Tiffany is simply a fighter, who wasn't going to springiness up.
"She has stories and, she's I mean, she could constitute a book, but it conscionable it's conscionable it's unbelievable," helium said.
As Wednesday evening, Tiffany is successful the infirmary for reflection and is speaking with deputies. being checked retired and speaking to detectives. The FCSO spokesperson says connected the time they announced Tiffany was missing, they emailed Gutierrez's edifice letting them cognize to support an oculus retired successful lawsuit she showed up.
