Text, calls didn't go through before family of 3 died while hiking
A California couple, their 1-year-old daughter and their dog died due to extreme heat while hiking last summer.
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A California couple, their 1-year-old daughter and their dog died due to extreme heat while hiking last summer.
A California couple, their 1-year-old daughter and their dog died due to extreme heat while hiking last summer.
Nearly six months after a Northern California family and their dog died of extreme heat exhaustion and dehydration while hiking, phone data was released on Thursday shows a text message and several phone calls did not go through due to poor cell phone reception.
A view of the Sierra National Forest and the Hites Cove Trail. Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images A family of 3 was found dead on a
John Gerrish and Ellen Chung tried desperate to text for help. But the area had bad cellphone service and the messages never went through. Neither did five phone calls to various people, investigators said.