A man lost in the woods for five days was discovered after someone heard a voice calling for help, deputies in Washington said.
The witness called 911 at about 12:30 a.m. June 21 in Poulsbo, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
A deputy then went to the area and heard “a faint, distressful voice coming from the woods from a man saying he had fallen from a tree,” authorities said.
At about 7 a.m. that morning, teams discovered a man who told them he tried to take a shortcut and ended up lost in the woods, deputies said.
Photos show rescuers carrying him out of the wilderness in a stretcher before he was taken to a hospital.
Poulsbo is about a 35-mile drive, including a ferry ride, northwest from Seattle.
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