Missing man found alive in bushland after lighting fire to signal for help

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A camper who became lost in Victoria’s Gippsland region has been found after 9 days in the bush. 61-year-old Troy Milne was discovered after lighting a fire to attract attention.

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00:00Search teams had been looking for Troy Milne for nine days.

00:06Overnight, the good news everyone had been hoping for.

00:09It was really good to know, you know, knowing these cases and how they can turn out

00:14and how some of them have turned out in East Gippsland over the last four or five years,

00:18that we were going into somebody, you know, who was alive and, you know,

00:23that had been found in considering the situation, remarkably good condition.

00:27Just some dehydration and obviously suffering effects of his medical condition,

00:34which was diabetes, which we believe led him to be confused and disoriented.

00:39Mr Milne became lost after leaving his campsite at Woodside Beach to buy supplies.

00:44He was captured on CCTV.

00:47According to police, the 61-year-old's car later became stuck on an unmarked track,

00:52leaving him stranded for days.

00:55But he formulated a clever plan.

00:58He sighted an aircraft going overhead two days in a row,

01:02so Troy lit a fire to bring attention to himself.

01:06Eventually, he was located with his car near Buchan,

01:10more than two hours away from his campsite.

01:12Mr Milne is currently receiving treatment in hospital.

01:15He was in a hospital for the first two days.

01:17The doctor was looking for him to promote the wellness treatment andbies.

01:19The responsibility of the treatment in hospital is with my husband.

01:20One day the doctor was speaking to himself,

01:21he was looking for him to address the situation.

01:22The doctor was looking for him to come up with his phone.

01:23The doctor was working for him to give her apartment.

01:24In sezап political mulee and his family.

01:25He was working for him to get to his home.

01:26The doctor was working for him to get to his home.

01:27We can get to the hospital.

01:28The doctor was waiting for him to get to get to know Sarah.

01:29The hospital would be on a hospital.

01:30The hospital had been told his apartment on a hospital.

01:31The hospital has been taken a hospital.

01:32The hospital has been notified when he 기�baarさled here with him.

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