Big Sur hikers were looking for a fishing spot. Instead, they saved a woman's life

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The wreck of Angela Hernandez's white 2011 Jeep Patriot rests in the water line Friday on a rocky Big Sur beach. Courtesy of Chelsea Moore

CALIFORNIA

Big Sur hikers were looking for a fishing spot. Instead, they saved a woman’s life
BY GABBY FERREIRA

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July 16, 2018 04:59 PM

Updated July 16, 2018 05:58 PM

A fortuitous birthday camping trip to Big Sur placed a Morro Bay couple in the right place at the right time Friday to save the life of an Oregon woman who survived seven days on a rocky beach after her car plunged over a 250-foot cliff.

Chad and Chelsea Moore travel to Big Sur about every other month, they said, usually to camp at Plaskett Creek Campground on Highway 1. On this trip, however, they decided to try Kirk Creek Campground for the first time instead, Chelsea said.
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A battered Jeep

As the couple walked alone on the rocky beach, they came across the wreckage of a white Jeep. ... “I was expecting to find dead bodies,” Chad Moore said. “We were just shocked, looking at this Jeep that was just sitting in the boulders. We thought someone lost their life here very recently.” .... The Moores began to walk back the way they had come when suddenly Chelsea heard something over the sound of the surf.

A cry for help

“I said, ‘Chad, did you hear that?’ and then we both heard it,” she said. “We looked and she was getting to her feet, standing in the rocks.” ... “She was crying out for help with whatever voice she had left,” Chad said. “She was standing in the rocks and trying to wave to us, and we could barely hear her over the waves breaking.” ... The person in the rocks was Angela Hernandez, an Oregon woman who had been missing for a week after her Jeep went over a cliff on Highway 1 on July 6.
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Gabby Ferreira: 805-781-7858

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Talk about a lucky break all around!

Thank goodness they found her.

Thank goodness she was still alive! And that is something, when you consider her injuries! A broken rib, a collapsed lung and etc. Those are serious.

Wow.