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PHOENIX – Zach Moralez, an Arizona transport worker, knew something was wrong when he saw a damaged fence along a highway.
The tracks left the edge of the road and through the fence on the edge of the hill. Moralez, a road operations technician, knew that there had to be a car down there.
"We arrived as quickly as possible, without knowing if anyone could hear us," Moralez told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "No answer."
He, his colleague and his farmer brother found no one in a mutilated vehicle that had lost 15 feet (15 meters) and landed on a mesquite tree. But they did not give up.
With the help of a soldier from the Arizona Department of Public Safety who they called, the group found a 53-year-old woman snuggled in a dry riverbed, gravely injured by the accident and severely dehydrated after six days spent in the desert.
"She was in a fetal position and there was no movement," Moralez said. "We started asking him several questions:" How long have you been here? Do you have pain? "
Despite being somewhat lethargic and suffering, she was alert enough to open her eyes and answer questions. Moralez said that she was dirty because of her sleep and that she had had a facial trauma, probably as a result of the accident.
About 15 minutes later, she was airlifted to a hospital, ending her six-day ordeal in a rural area. It is not known how it survived, but temperatures were relatively mild: they dropped in the mid-fifties at night and reached the lowest of the 80s during this period.
The woman recounted how she drove on October 60 on American soil 60, when she lost control of her car, according to the soldier. She stayed in the car for several days before trying to walk to a railway track to find help, but she was too weak to do so, authorities said.
His footprints drove Moralez and the others to her on October 18th.
Quentin Mehr, spokesperson for DPS, said the woman refused all requests from the media and gave no details about her current state.
The director of the DPS, Colonel Frank Milstead, congratulated the transport workers and the breeder.
"Thanks to their remarkable efforts, this woman's life has been saved," he said in a statement.
Moralez said it was a positive feeling to know that he had helped to make the difference between life and death for someone.
"I think people are put in the right place at the right time," he said.
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