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Another Real Life Survivor
« on: Dec 10th, 2002, 4:35pm »
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CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- A man trapped for nearly a week in his car after it plunged into a ravine survived in the freezing cold by burning paper, melting snow for water and eating packets of fast-food sauce, rescuers say.  
 
Robert Ward, 32, suffered a broken hip in the crash and could not get out of the car. He was found Sunday by his friend Terry Likens, captain of the fire department where Ward is a volunteer emergency medical technician.  
 
"I don't think he would have made it through the night," Likens said. "He told us when we found him, he said he was getting ready to go to sleep for the last time. He had just about given up."  
 
Ward was in serious condition after surgery Sunday at a hospital in Huntington. Both of his feet were frostbitten.  
 
Ward was five miles from the coal mine where he works as a security guard and two miles from the nearest home when his car went off the road December 2. It plunged 150 feet and hit a tree, destroying the headlights and horn.  
 
The area's first major snowfall hit a few days later and temperatures remained below freezing for several days. To stay warm, Ward ripped the lining from the car's roof and used it as a blanket, Likens said.  
 
He also burned paper, including pages from his EMT manual, and melted snow to drink. His only food was what he could get out of an old peanut butter jar and sauce packets from Taco Bell.  
 
"It's a bachelor vehicle. It catches a little bit of everything," Likens said.  
 
Searchers from two volunteer fire departments, law enforcement agencies, state natural resource and forestry workers and coal mine employees scoured the area. A coal company donated a helicopter for the search.  
 
As Likens and a companion searched the ravine Sunday with binoculars, Ward heard their car and voices and started hollering.  
 
"He asked us to pinch him so he knew he wasn't dreaming," Likens said. "He said he had a lot of weird dreams while he was down there. He dreamed two or three times when people would come by and didn't get him out."
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 12th, 2002, 9:58am »
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MORNING SHOWS FEUD OVER SURVIVOR  
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'GOOD Morning America" and "Today" were engaged in a battle royale yesterday to land an exclusive interview with the West Virginia man who was trapped in his car for nearly a week.  
 
The two morning shows are highly competitive, but the scramble to land Robert Ward, 32, who suffered a broken hip in the crash but survived for six days on packets of taco sauce, peanut butter and snow, was even more intense than usual, insiders say.  
 
Yesterday NBC staffers said they overheard Katie Couric telling "Today" producers that she didn't want a repeat of the incident last summer when "GMA" producers managed to lock "Today" out of the first interview with one of the trapped Pennsylvania coal miners.  
 
Ward and his family agreed to give the first interview to "GMA," sources said.  
 
Crews from "Today," "Dateline," and CBS' "The Early Show" meanwhile were shut out of the medical center in West Virginia, where Ward is recovering, by security for most of the day.  
 
Couric herself allegedly began calling the hospital's communications director to ask for access to Ward and his family. By last night there was no word whether she had gotten the family to change its mind.  
 
NBC officials declined to comment.  
 
Couric was reportedly enraged after losing the Pennsylvania miners scoop and that may have led to the ouster of "Today" show's former executive producer, Jonathan Wald.  
 
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« Reply #2 on: Dec 12th, 2002, 5:35pm »
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Couric needs a  :chillpill:.  i saw the interview this morning.. it seemed that that poor man really did not  need to be speaking with anyone... just the look onhis face said it all,..it was much too soon.  he did not look so good to me.  he should have been
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« Reply #3 on: Dec 13th, 2002, 7:51pm »
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never works to try to get it all for yourself.  In the end you can't make it look good.
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