Eagle swoops in to rescue woman lost in bush


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Waitematā

An early morning walk turned into a rescue operation after a woman became lost in Piha bush yesterday.

At around 11am, Police received a call from a walker advising she was stuck in dense bush and unable to make her way out.

Exhausted and unsure of her exact location, the woman had been walking for three hours and was surrounded by undergrowth up to her neck.

Waitematā West Area Response Manager, Senior Sergeant Jon Winthrop says GPS showed the woman was near Marine Parade South, but access to the area had been washed out in a previous slip.


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Eagle directed the Tactical Flight Officer to the woman
The officer led the woman out of dense bush
The woman was lost in bush near Piha