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Family Rescued From The Wilderness On The Coast

(Coquille, OR)  --  A Hillsboro woman and her three children are safe, after they were found stranded in the wilderness on the Southern Oregon Coast.  Coos County Sheriff's officials say Alice Schwartz and her kids were Geocaching near Burnt Mountain Road outside Coquille [[ coe-KEEL' ]], when she turned the car down an unpaved road and it high centered on a log.  The family walked a mile in the cold rain to get a cell signal to call for help.  A sheriff's deputy and a sergeant were able to clear the log and the family drove out on their own.  Geocaching is where participants use GPS to find containers with prizes hidden by other participants.

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