乗組員s 救助(する) father, 2 kids in SC 国家の park

CONGAREE NATIONAL PARK, S.C. (AP) ― Search 乗組員s have 設立する a father and his two children who had been 行方不明の for more than two days in the 広大な 支持を得ようと努めるd and 押し寄せる/沼地s of the Congaree 国家の Park in South Carolina, 公式の/役人s said Tuesday.

Dana Soehn of the 国家の Park Service said 特別奇襲隊員s had 位置を示すd J.R. Kimbler, his 10-year-old son, Dakota, and 6-year-old daughter, Jade. The three ― who carried no food, water or (軍の)野営地,陣営ing 器具/備品 ― got lost after taking to the 追跡するs on Saturday afternoon for what was 明らかに ーするつもりであるd to be a short 引き上げ(る).

"They were all 承認する," Soehn said at a news 会議/協議会. "They looked remarkably 井戸/弁護士席."

This photo provided by the National Park Service, rescue personnel attend to Dakota Kimbler, 10 and his sister Jade Kimbler, 6, after they were lost with the...

The three were taken to a 地元の hospital for 観察, 公式の/役人s said.

Eighty 捜査員s from nearly a dozen 機関s searched for the family in the 27,000-acre 場所/位置 since the father sent a text message late Saturday 説 they were lost. 乗組員s flew over the entire park, but Soehn said ground 捜査員s 徹底的に捜すd 9,000 acres on foot and by 乗り物 before finding the family.

公式の/役人s の近くにd the park Monday afternoon during the search. An investigative team from the 国家の Park Service checked on possible leads outside the park.

Park 特別奇襲隊員 Jared Gurtler said he was elated to hear Kimbler 答える/応じる when he called out his 指名する at around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday during his morning 一連の会議、交渉/完成するs of the park's 追跡するs. Gurtler was about two miles from the 訪問者s' 中心 where the family entered the park.

"I was just hollering 指名するs," said Gurtler. "They all hollered 支援する."

When they spotted each other on opposite 味方するs of a stream, Gurtler 投げ上げる/ボディチェックするd over three 瓶/封じ込めるs of water. After 会合 up, Kimbler told the officer he had been on the boardwalk that 勝利,勝つd through the park but left it to follow another 追跡する when he got lost.

Kimbler had taken the children to the park in his taxi cab. The 乗り物 was 設立する parked 近づく the 訪問者's 中心 Monday.

The family had no food o r water when they were 救助(する)d, but Kimbler said they drank water they 設立する in the park. 一方/合間, 穏やかな 天候 ― with 最低気温s in the 60s ― helped the family 耐える three nights in the wild.

"I don't know if it's luck," Gurtler said, of finding the family just hours before 嵐/襲撃するs move into the area Tuesday. "It just worked out, fortunately, in our 好意."

The park has 示すd 追跡するs, but beyond the paths are 絡まるs of old growth trees, 押し寄せる/沼地s and underbrush. The land has become even more rugged since an ice 嵐/襲撃する in February knocked 負かす/撃墜する thousands of trees and 四肢s.

Tammy Ballard, the children's mother, was at the park during the search, walking 負かす/撃墜する 追跡するs, calling their 指名するs.

"It's been 堅い," Ballard told the AP in the hours before the children were 設立する. "I see so many 足跡s out there."

The park was to 再開する to 訪問者s later in the day.

Kimbler had been out of his children's lives for a few years but recently started to get them on the 週末s, said Chris Ballard, stepbrother of the children. The trip to Congaree 国家の Park was the first time he had been out there.

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Jeffrey Collins in Columbia 与える/捧げるd to this 報告(する)/憶測. Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP

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