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(KTXL) — The Nevada County Sheriff's Office said it recovered and rescued connected Friday day a 24-year-old pistillate who had been missing for 12 days successful a distant area.
The woman, Esmeralda Maria Pineda, was recovered "severely dehydrated and emaciated" and needing contiguous aesculapian attention, the bureau said.
Nevada County hunt and rescue crews recovered Esmeralda Maria Pineda successful a forested country and took her to the infirmary via helicopter. (Credit: Nevada County Sheriff's Office)Deputies located her astatine the apical of a stream canyon adjacent the Yuba River and Sweetland Creek. That is simply a forested country southbound of New Bullards Bar Reservoir, astir 90 miles northeast of Sacramento.
Firefighters with the North San Juan Fire Department attended to Pineda earlier she was taken to a infirmary successful a CHP helicopter.
“The Sheriff’s Office and our hunt and rescue volunteers covered extended crushed passim our search, and we are thankful contiguous to find her alive,” said Sergeant Dustin Moe successful a connection issued by the sheriff's office.
The bureau said that the country was "treacherous successful nature" and that hunt and rescue volunteers had to rappel into and retired of a canyon to hunt for Pineda.
Search crews besides had been utilizing off-highway vehicles during the 12-day search.
Pineda was reported missing aft being seen for the past clip astatine a Nevada County mining campy adjacent the mediate fork of the Yuba River and Sweetland Creek connected August 26.
In the days after, the sheriff's bureau said she was considered at-risk and that she whitethorn person been trying to instrumentality to the Sacramento area.
