Lost and Found … Thanks to Sprint’s GPS

Last month Darleen Husson got a phone call she won’t soon forget. Her 18-year-old daughter and her two girlfriends decided to go hiking late one afternoon on the Appalachian Trail and called at about 7:30 p.m. to say they were lost.

The Rangers were quickly contacted to begin searching for the girls. Fortunately, one of them had GPS on her Sprint device. The service had been deactivated when she went to college, but her parents were able to get it turned back on quickly.

“After a couple of phone calls to Sprint to activate the GPS and many hours, we were given the coordinates of the Sprint phone,” Darleen recalled. “The girls were found about 1:30 a.m., a little cold, hungry and scared. We were all very thankful for the Sprint GPS.”