HENRY Morello began to lose hope after being stranded in his car in the Arizona desert for five long days in which the 84-year-old drank windshield wiper fluid, used car mats to stay warm and read a car manual from cover to cover to pass the time.<\/p>\n
Then, he heard a knock on a window from a hiker, and suddenly his long, painful ordeal was over.<\/p>\n
‘I just kissed him,’ Mr Morello said of the hiker. ‘He looked like an angel to me.’ Mr Morello described his ordeal at a hospital news conference Tuesday as he recalled making a wrong turn while driving home Feb 7 from a restaurant and ending up stuck in the desert. His car and cell phone battery soon went dead as rescuers looked for him.<\/p>\n
Mr Morello said he became stranded when – realising he made a wrong turn – made a U-turn and ended up in a ditch. He tried to crawl out of the car but did not get too far and returned. He ripped a chrome piece from his car and put it on the roof, hoping someone would see the reflection.<\/p>\n
Overnight temperatures the week he was missing were between 4 to 7 deg C, the National Weather Service said. The hikers who found him on Saturday morning weren’t identified at the news conference, but Jim Sheehan, a search and rescue leader, said they knew of the missing man.<\/p>\n
‘Nobody ever gave up’ in the search, said Mr Sheehan, who was on a search plane when he got a call saying Mr Morello had been found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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