BREMEN, Maine - Just three days after a Maine Game Warden K9 team found a missing 11-year-old St. Albans girl the same team found another missing person in deep woods early Monday, rescuing an elderly woman who had fallen.
Game Warden Jake Voter Voter and Koda responded around 11:45 a.m. on Sunday to the home of Mary Forde, a 77-year-old woman who lives alone in Bremen.
Neighbors went to her house to check on her earlier and found her missing with the back door of the house open and her pocketbook and phone still at the house. Forde was last seen on Friday.
The neighbors called 911, and a Knox County Sheriff's deputy and his K9 came and began searching but were unable to pick up any sign or scent of Forde. Voter and Koda began searching the thick woods behind the house shortly after, and after following an old trail, Koda was able to pick up a scent that led them to Forde, over 600 yards from her house, around 12:40 a.m. Monday.
Forde was alert but severely dehydrated when she was found by Voter and Koda. Forde told Voter that she had fallen, was too weak to get up, and had spent two nights in the woods.
Forde was examined on site by an EMT, then transported by Bremen Fire and Rescue on an ATV to a waiting ambulance, then transported to Lincoln Health Hospital in Damariscotta.
Her condition was not immediately released.