A Michigan woman missing for 3 days after a casino trip is found alive in the woods

GRANT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 74-year-old pistillate who got mislaid aft a sojourn to a bluish Michigan casino was recovered live 3 days aboriginal connected the crushed adjacent to a downed tree, authorities said.

A drone played a large relation successful locating Nancy Bloomquist successful a distant country Sunday night, the Mason County sheriff's bureau said.

Bloomquist was connected her mode location to Norton Shores aft visiting Little River Casino, 100 miles (160 kilometers) away, past Thursday.

“She became mislaid and ended up connected a agelong driveway of a seasonal home. While attempting to get turned astir the conveyance became disabled and caught fire,” the sheriff's bureau said Monday.

Bloomquist got retired but had near her telephone inside. She got mislaid erstwhile she tried to instrumentality to her SUV.

“She laic adjacent to a downed tree, to question structure during the Thursday nighttime rain,” the sheriff's bureau said. “She became acold to the constituent that she could not get backmost to her feet Friday."

A extremity astir a burned conveyance led authorities to Grant Township connected Sunday. The sheriff's bureau utilized a drone and a satellite-based net work to find Bloomquist connected the ground.