Deborah Pilgrim went missing on Sunday while camping with friends about 100 kilometres from the South Australian state capital of Adelaide.Dozens of police and emergency services personnel, as well as a rescue helicopter, were called in to search the remote area, but after three days had failed to locate the missing woman.
Late Tuesday a man remotely monitoring CCTV footage of his property near the South Australian search area, noticed an SOS sign etched into a dirt driveway near his unoccupied home. He alerted police, who found Pilgrim close to midnight on a neighbouring property where she had located water.“I think I dropped to the ground,” she added, recalling the moment rescuers arrived.
Neil Marriot, whose CCTV cameras had picked up Pilgrim’s distress signal, said he’d only recently had the security system installed after several recent break-ins. “I’m so pleased she was able to find water because I feared the worst for her – I really did,” he told national broadcaster ABC.--AFP