democrat stupid California couple missing for 8 days found alive, police call it 'a miracle'

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-missing-found-alive-marin-county-
hike-sheriff-miracle

A couple missing for over a week in Northern California were found alive
on Saturday morning by rescuers who had given up hope of finding them
alive.

The Marin County Sheriff's Office said at a news conference that Carol
Kiparsky, 77, and Ian Irwin, 72, were found around 10 a.m. on Saturday in
"very dense drainage [ditch] that was overgrown with foliage" near Tomales
Bay, a narrow inlet about 30 miles north of San Francisco.

“This is a miracle,” Marin County Sheriff's Sgt. Brenton Schneider told
reporters.

The couple, from Palo Alto, was last seen Valentine's Day, at their Airbnb
rented cottage near Inverness, a town at the foot of the bay. The couple
never checked out the next day as planned and failed to show up for an
appointment on Feb. 16, which sheriff's officials said was highly out of
character for them.

When housekeepers went to the cottage to clean up, they found the couple's
phones and wallets in addition to their vehicle parked outside the rental
home.

"[They] left for a hike on Valentine's, got lost at dark, and don't know
what happened," Schneider told reporters on Saturday.

The couple, who were unprepared for a long hike, were wearing lightweight
clothing and had no food as night temperatures fell into the 30s.

"The reason they were most likely alive was because they were drinking
from a puddle that they found near where they were located," Schneider
said.

At some point, the couple may have fallen and Kiparsky attempted to find
help alone. She tied parts of her scarf to branches in order to get back
to her partner, Schneider said.

“They thought this was the end for them," he told reporters.

Sheriff's officials and a volunteer team had combed the woods and waters
around Inverness for several days with the help of drones, dive teams and
boats equipped with radar and sonar. On Thursday, they shifted the
operation to a “recovery mission” when they received four independent
alerts from cadaver dogs around Shell Beach, about 2 miles from the
cottage, and felt they had exhausted all possible leads.

“We believe that our extensive search efforts with every resource that has
been available to us would have located Carol and Ian if they were
responsive or in an area accessible by foot on land,” the sheriff's office
said in a press release.

The area where officials were searching on Saturday was a new location and
considered to be an implausible spot to find the missing couple.


Marin County Sheriff
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@MarinSheriff
A big shout out to @sonomasheriff for the amazingly quick response,
professionalism, and their ability to get Carol and Ian to the medics the
fastest way possible.

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"It doesn't seem they would have made it much farther because of how dense
the vegetation is," Schneider said Saturday.

Quincy Webster and Rich Cassens, two Marin County search-and-rescue
volunteers, were the ones to discover the missing couple, along with their
3-year-old search-and-rescue K-9 named Grute

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@MarinSheriff
Carol and Ian are on there way to a local hospital. Both were extracted by
@sonomasheriff helicopter and @MarinSAR @marincountyfire

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"We were breaking through the bushes," Webster said at a news conference.
"It took a long time to move a short distance."

As they approached, the two rescuers said they heard someone yelling
"help" and then came across Irwin and Kiparsky, who said they were "very
cold."

"When they were found, they were very appreciative. Ian started singing
when the helicopter arrived on scene," Schneider said.

The couple was airlifted to a hospital for treatment of hypothermia and
were "doing OK," according to the sheriff's office.

Ian Irwin can be seen being airlifted out of a wooded area in Northern
California on Saturday. (Sonoma Sheriff)

Authorities told KTVU that the couple was alert and talking. Schneider
estimates that 400-500 people participated in the search-and-rescue
operation over the past week.

Irwin is a leading Parkinson’s disease researcher. He was a chemist on the
team that originally identified an agent responsible for the outbreak of
Parkinsonism among heroin addicts in 1982, according to the newspaper.

Kiparsky is a prominent linguist and author of several books on language,
including 1975's “The Gooficon: A Repair Manual for English."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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