YAVAPAI COUNTY, Ariz. — A Glendale woman was hospitalized on Christmas Day after she was found disoriented and shoeless in a remote forest in southeast Yavapai County, the sheriff's office said.
The 62-year-old woman had driven off Bloody Basin Road and it initially appeared to Forest Patrol deputies that her vehicle was stuck. When they spoke with the woman she left her car on foot in nothing but a t-shirt and shorts, shoeless, in frigid weather, according to the report.
Deputies realized that her car wasn't stuck and were able to retrieve the woman and work on getting her medical attention.
A Department of Public Safety helicopter was used to hoist her out of the "extreme remote area" and airlift her to a Phoenix hospital.
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