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The unidentified woman and her significant other attempted to use the air mattress as a makeshift raft to reach a boat in Lake Texoma, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol tells PEOPLE in a statement. The lake is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States.
“The information that we have is that a man showed up at a house near Lake Texoma on Thursday, wet and freezing and reported his significant other missing,” says a spokesperson for the department.
“He said she was using an air mattress to float out to a boat on the lake and got swept away the day before,” they continued.
About an hour after being alerted to the situation on Thursday, authorities received a call from a train company saying they had picked up the woman on the opposite side of the lake.
“She had flagged them down for help and they brought her over where she was delivered to EMS,” the spokesperson says.
Train conductor Cristhian Sosa and train engineer Justin Luster toldKXIIthat they didn’t know what to think when they first saw the soaking wet woman holding a mattress, but they recognized she needed help.
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“She had been floating on that air mattress for a solid day or two,” Luster told the news station.
Sosa said “she was literally laying on the ground, waving one arm,” as her other arm was stuck in her jacket, and “asking for help.”
“We instantly knew she was hurt and she needed help,” Sosa added.
The woman told the two men there was “nothing she could do” while atop the mattress in the lake, KXII reported.
“She had no recollection of time — she had said she had been there for almost two days hiding under an air mattress,” he explained.
“Such an incredible story,” Kent told the outlet.
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The highway patrol tells PEOPLE no crime was committed and they are not planning an investigation into the incident.
source: people.com
