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Two adults and four children arrive at Pershing General Hospital on Tuesday after being lost for two days in the frigid mountains near Lovelock, Nev.
By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News
A couple and four children who vanished in sub-zero conditions in the mountains of northern Nevada were found safe Tuesday and revealed they had heated rocks in a fire to keep warm, officials said.
The six were found "in fairly good shape" Tuesday afternoon after crews spent two nights searching for them, Pershing County police dispatcher Leslie Steward said.
"It's a miracle. It really is," Pershing County Sheriff Richard Machado told reporters.
About 90 miles outside of Reno, Nev., the desperate search for a missing family has come to an end. It turns out the last-known signal on their cell phone helped lead search teams to a specific area. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
James Glanton, 34, and Christina McIntee, 25, their two children, ages 3 and 4, and a 10-year-old niece and four-year-old nephew were found in a spot on the mountain range which featured poor cellphone reception, Steward said. The volunteer rescuer who located them had to drive to another location to alert the sheriff's office of the discovery, she added.
They failed to return Sunday from a trip to play in the snow near their hometown of Lovelock in Nevada's high desert about 100 miles northeast of Reno.
Temperatures fell to 21 below zero on the mountain range Sunday night, and were well below zero again Monday night into Tuesday, according to authorities.
Pershing County Sheriff's Office received word shortly before 11 a.m. (2 p.m. ET) that the family's vehicle had been located, Steward said. The silver Jeep had rolled and was found on its side with the family stranded in the vehicle "down off a little slope," she said.
The Jeep had been seen Sunday "doing wheelies or doughnuts" at a mining camp in Seven Troughs, Pershing dispatch supervisor Sheila Reitz said Monday.
Officials said the couple had not brought food or water with them on the outing.
Chris Montes, the rescuer who first spotted the vehicle, told NBC station KRNV that Glanton had built a fire so that he could heat rocks and bring them into the Jeep to keep the family warm.
They used a spare tire as a container for a fire made from brush and wood found in the area.
According to The Associated Press, Montes first saw what looked to be children's footprints in the snow before spotting tire tracks leading into a remote canyon but not back out.
Cathleen Allison / AP
Marty Happy, holding his son Ryder, 2, hugs David Mosier after they received word that a group of six people had been found alive after being stranded for two days in the frigid mountains near Lovelock, Nev., on Tuesday. Mosier's 10-year-old cousin was among the group who were treated at a local hospital Tuesday.
"I think everybody was thinking the worst for a little bit," said Montes, a longtime friend of Glanton who hunts in the area.
U.S. Civil Air Patrol and a search and rescue team started looking for the couple and children when they were reported missing on Monday.
Nevada wing Civil Air Patrol Col. Timothy F. Hahn said the family was found "four miles from civilization," and they survived because they did not attempt to trek that distance on foot. "They stayed with the vehicle. Otherwise, there would have been at least one recovery involved instead of a save," Hahn said.
Hahn said the search team focused on areas without cellphone reception since the last indication of the family's cellphone activity was early Sunday night. "Search and rescue will always be a matter of elimination — where are they not," he said.
The couple and children, Evan Glanton, Chloe Glanton, Shelby Fitzpatrick and Tate McIntee, were transported to hospital.
Pershing County General Hospital CEO Patricia Bianchi said they had not suffered frostbite but were experiencing "some exposure issues and dehydration."
"I'm relieved that God answered our prayers," Shelby's cousin, David Mosier told NBC station KRNV's Van Tieu, outside the hospital Tuesday. "They just told me that they found them and that's all I wanted to hear."
The Seven Troughs area is named after a series of seven parallel canyons below Seven Trough Peak — elevation 7,474 feet — in the Kamma Mountains stretching north across the Pershing-Humboldt county line. It's about 20 miles southeast of Black Rock Desert, where the annual Burning Man counterculture festival is held.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:50 PM EST
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