Thanks to “DeRanger” Steve of Desert Bandanna for submitting this story. Desert Bandanna is touted to be a survival tool for those stuck in the desert. The bandanna has tips printed on it so you know how to survive if you are ever forced to spend more time in the desert than you planned.
During spring break in 1987, a man was working on a wind farm west of Palm Springs, CA and just to the east of the settling ponds where the locals like to swim, sail and play.
Temperatures were about 102 degrees with a humidity level of 12 percent. While working in an assembly yard 5 miles from the main road, the man, Kyle, saw a pretty blond girl in a pink bikini walk out of the desert scrub and chaparral. As she called him, the girl collapsed on the sand.
Kyle put her in the shade of his truck and gave her water to cool her down. The girl came around and said her name was Sally and that she and two friends where heading to the ponds for a swim when their car got stuck.
Helping Sally into his truck, they went off to find her friends. Fifteen minutes later and half a mile away, Kyle found out Sally was indeed mired as her Pontiac Firebird was buried up to its belly in very soft sand.
Somehow, Sally managed to drive two and a half miles into the desert before getting stuck. Sally’s friends spread their blankets out to tan themselves while waiting for Sally to get help. They already started showing signs of sunburn, dehydration and heat stress.
Kyle called for a work crew and stinger truck with a lift boom from the wind farm on the radio to hoist the Firebird onto the truck bed, which was then carted to the main road. Sally and her friends were extremely lucky to have been found on an almost never used road after taking a wrong turn.
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