My neighbor probably just save a woman's life.

[David2012]

A lady I know in my neighborhood just took her dog out in her backyard to do its business a short while ago and heard a woman yelling for help. Neighbor called the police and then started looking to try and find the woman. I heard the police call go out on the scanner that there was a woman screaming for help near where I lived... so I to went to try and help, as I knew I would get there well before the police could. We've got a lot of older people in our neighborhood and I thought maybe one of them had fallen in their yard. Anyway, by the time I got into the alley behind the house where the call had come from...the neighbor had already located a 80-ish year old woman who lives down the alley from her about 3-4 houses on the other side... who was dressed only in a T-shirt and shorts and was trapped inside her little metal backyard tool shed.

What had made it hard to find her was that she has a really nice 7-8 foot wooden privacy fence around her back yard. The woman said she had gone in the shed around 5pm yesterday to get something and the door closed behind her. The latch was a simple hook kind on the outside and there was no cord going to the inside for her to pull on to open it. She was just about done in. Ambulance & police are with her now. I'm thankfull I have a great neighbor who was alert and willing to get involved and go looking for the source of the calls for help... otherwise this poor woman might have not made it. It is nice to know we have good neighbors.

 

[reddog1]

Whew!! bet she was glad to get out of that thing!!

Glad it went ok!

WOW. That had to suck, I bet she froze her ass off.

Prayers sent, I hope she is having some warm hot cocoa right now.

 

[HMFIC]

Wow... glad she was saved.

 

[David2012]

What is even sadder is that her husband has diabetes really bad and Alzheimer's.. and doesn't know her most of the time. He was in the house alone all that time, so he couldn't report her missing. I'm praying both of them are OK and don't suffer any long term difficulties over this. I've never met the lady, but may try to get in touch with one of her immediate neighbors and provide them with a good stout cord and a handle to put on the inside of the woman's shed door connected to the latch... or talk with her about letting me put it on for her.

Edit: Just saw the Channel 7 news story about this elderly lady. It reported that the police had located her. To me, it appeared my neighbor located the woman before the police & ambulance had arrived. I was in the alley before the police had arrived in front of the house and never saw the neighbor until she came out of the privacy fence gate. She said she had located the woman because the woman had started beating on the metal sides of the shed. The news story also said she had a lot of blankets and a space heater inside the shed to help keep her warm. Neighbor told me the woman was very chilled and the poor thing could hardly walk... no mention of a space heater or blankets. So the truth about what the real situation was like inside the shed is up in the air. Just glad she and her husband are OK