https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/woman-falls-off-cliff-while-texting/m-p/257257#M113972 <P class="first story_readable entry-content">A Kodiak woman is in an Anchorage hospital recovering in an Anchorage hospital after she fell off a 60-foot beach cliff near downtown Kodiak. A friend who heard her screams found her and called rescuers, <A rel="nofollow" href="http://kodiakdailymirror.com/bookmark/20272919" target="_blank">reports the Kodiak Daily Mirror</A></P> <DIV id="story_inset" class="story_inset"> <DIV class="story_tools"> <P class="link"><EM>By the time the Kodiak Fire Department got to [Maria] Pestrikoff, the tide was coming in. Rescuers had to act quickly - she was only about 10 feet from the water's edge.</EM></P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="entry-content additional"> <P class="story_readable"><EM>"The incoming tide was a factor to consider with regard to expediting the patient's lift and removal from the beach so as to not introduce cold water hypothermia as another factor influencing her injuries," [Fire Chief Rome] Kamai said.</EM></P> <P class="story_readable"><EM>Pestrikoff had multiple injuries from the fall, but was stabilized and placed in a rolled stretcher for the lift. She was then hauled up the cliff and transported in an ambulance to Providence Kodiak Island Medical Clinic.</EM></P> <DIV id="storyAd"> <DIV id="mrec01" class="advertisement"> &lt;!-- new geopick hack : geo var = --&gt;&lt;!-- ENTERING ads_active --&gt; &lt;!-- Begin Cox Digital Solutions Tag on "McClatchy_aud" --&gt; &lt;!-- Dart adid 249352262 --&gt; &lt;!-- End Cox Digital Solutions Tag on "McClatchy_aud" --&gt; &lt;!-- BEGIN JS TAG - McClatchy_RON_300x250 &lt; - DO NOT MODIFY --&gt; &lt;!-- END TAG --&gt;&lt;!-- Rubicon Project Tag --&gt; &lt;!-- Site: McClatchy Zone: MI-AN_NTL Audience Network_45901 Size: Medium Rectangle --&gt; <DIV style="width: 0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> &lt;iframe style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="<A href="http://tap2-cdn.rubiconproject.com/partner/scripts/rubicon/emily.html?rtb_ext=1&amp;pc=6291/9346&amp;geo=na&amp;co=us&quot;" target="_blank">http://tap2-cdn.rubiconproject.com/partner/scripts/rubicon/emily.html?rtb_ext=1&amp;pc=6291/9346&amp;geo=na&amp;co=us"</A> frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="0" height="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</DIV> <DIV id="icD249872342399" style="display: none;"> </DIV> <SPAN id="te-4630-icon" style="z-index: 999999; position: absolute; margin: 0px; width: 19px; display: block; height: 15px; overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; top: 727px; left: 600px; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px;"><SPAN id="te-4630-anch-mo" style="display: none; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><SPAN style="line-height: 15px; vertical-align: top;"><IMG src="http://choices-st.truste.com/get?name=admarker-full-tr.png" alt="/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=" te-4630-anch="" /><SPAN style="line-height: 15px; vertical-align: top;"><IMG src="http://choices-st.truste.com/get?name=admarker-icon-tr.png" alt="/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id=" yahoo_300x250_ipbtf_1="" /> &lt;!-- fac-gd2-fc-fail --&gt;&lt;!-- gd2-status-2 --&gt; &lt;!--cCat has invalid value--&gt;&lt;!--cCat has invalid value--&gt; &lt;!--QYZ CMS_NONE_AVAIL,;300x250;ipbtf;;2;--&gt;<IMG src="http://csc.beap.ad.yieldmanager.net/i?bv=1.0.0&amp;bs=(124erg3kg(gid$53b957ac-0ca4-11e2-a6bd-67927330f59e,st$1349191069335459,v$1.0))&amp;t=blank&amp;al=(as$11r980oca,aid$BENiKEwNiY0-,ct$25,at$0)" alt="/&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; How did Pestrikoff manage to fall off the cliff? &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=" story_readable="" /> <P></P> <P class="story_readable"><EM>Pestrikoff was texting and trying to toss a cigarette butt over the cliff when she slipped on the wet grass and fell over the edge.</EM></P> <P class="story_readable"> </P> <P class="story_readable">In a letter to the Daily Mirror, her friend Anthony Burke thanked rescuers and wrote, "Lesson learned -- don't leave the gate open, don't text message and smoke cigarettes on a slippery bluff with a long drop to the rocks."</P> <P class="story_readable">from Anchorage Daily News</P> <DIV style="text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <BR /> Read more here: <A href="http://www.adn.com/2012/09/26/2640951/texting-woman-falls-off-kodiak.html#storylink=cpy" target="_blank">http://www.adn.com/2012/09/26/2640951/texting-woman-falls-off-kodiak.html#storylink=cpy</A></DIV> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:22:55 GMT traveler 2012-10-02T16:22:55Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/woman-falls-off-cliff-while-texting/m-p/257257#M113972 <P class="first story_readable entry-content">A Kodiak woman is in an Anchorage hospital recovering in an Anchorage hospital after she fell off a 60-foot beach cliff near downtown Kodiak. A friend who heard her screams found her and called rescuers, <A rel="nofollow" href="http://kodiakdailymirror.com/bookmark/20272919" target="_blank">reports the Kodiak Daily Mirror</A></P> <DIV id="story_inset" class="story_inset"> <DIV class="story_tools"> <P class="link"><EM>By the time the Kodiak Fire Department got to [Maria] Pestrikoff, the tide was coming in. Rescuers had to act quickly - she was only about 10 feet from the water's edge.</EM></P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="entry-content additional"> <P class="story_readable"><EM>"The incoming tide was a factor to consider with regard to expediting the patient's lift and removal from the beach so as to not introduce cold water hypothermia as another factor influencing her injuries," [Fire Chief Rome] Kamai said.</EM></P> <P class="story_readable"><EM>Pestrikoff had multiple injuries from the fall, but was stabilized and placed in a rolled stretcher for the lift. She was then hauled up the cliff and transported in an ambulance to Providence Kodiak Island Medical Clinic.</EM></P> <DIV id="storyAd"> <DIV id="mrec01" class="advertisement"> &lt;!-- new geopick hack : geo var = --&gt;&lt;!-- ENTERING ads_active --&gt; &lt;!-- Begin Cox Digital Solutions Tag on "McClatchy_aud" --&gt; &lt;!-- Dart adid 249352262 --&gt; &lt;!-- End Cox Digital Solutions Tag on "McClatchy_aud" --&gt; &lt;!-- BEGIN JS TAG - McClatchy_RON_300x250 &lt; - DO NOT MODIFY --&gt; &lt;!-- END TAG --&gt;&lt;!-- Rubicon Project Tag --&gt; &lt;!-- Site: McClatchy Zone: MI-AN_NTL Audience Network_45901 Size: Medium Rectangle --&gt; <DIV style="width: 0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> &lt;iframe style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="<A href="http://tap2-cdn.rubiconproject.com/partner/scripts/rubicon/emily.html?rtb_ext=1&amp;pc=6291/9346&amp;geo=na&amp;co=us&quot;" target="_blank">http://tap2-cdn.rubiconproject.com/partner/scripts/rubicon/emily.html?rtb_ext=1&amp;pc=6291/9346&amp;geo=na&amp;co=us"</A> frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="0" height="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</DIV> <DIV id="icD249872342399" style="display: none;"> </DIV> <SPAN id="te-4630-icon" style="z-index: 999999; position: absolute; margin: 0px; width: 19px; display: block; height: 15px; overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; top: 727px; left: 600px; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px;"><SPAN id="te-4630-anch-mo" style="display: none; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><SPAN style="line-height: 15px; vertical-align: top;"><IMG src="http://choices-st.truste.com/get?name=admarker-full-tr.png" alt="/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=" te-4630-anch="" /><SPAN style="line-height: 15px; vertical-align: top;"><IMG src="http://choices-st.truste.com/get?name=admarker-icon-tr.png" alt="/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id=" yahoo_300x250_ipbtf_1="" /> &lt;!-- fac-gd2-fc-fail --&gt;&lt;!-- gd2-status-2 --&gt; &lt;!--cCat has invalid value--&gt;&lt;!--cCat has invalid value--&gt; &lt;!--QYZ CMS_NONE_AVAIL,;300x250;ipbtf;;2;--&gt;<IMG src="http://csc.beap.ad.yieldmanager.net/i?bv=1.0.0&amp;bs=(124erg3kg(gid$53b957ac-0ca4-11e2-a6bd-67927330f59e,st$1349191069335459,v$1.0))&amp;t=blank&amp;al=(as$11r980oca,aid$BENiKEwNiY0-,ct$25,at$0)" alt="/&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; How did Pestrikoff manage to fall off the cliff? &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=" story_readable="" /> <P></P> <P class="story_readable"><EM>Pestrikoff was texting and trying to toss a cigarette butt over the cliff when she slipped on the wet grass and fell over the edge.</EM></P> <P class="story_readable"> </P> <P class="story_readable">In a letter to the Daily Mirror, her friend Anthony Burke thanked rescuers and wrote, "Lesson learned -- don't leave the gate open, don't text message and smoke cigarettes on a slippery bluff with a long drop to the rocks."</P> <P class="story_readable">from Anchorage Daily News</P> <DIV style="text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <BR /> Read more here: <A href="http://www.adn.com/2012/09/26/2640951/texting-woman-falls-off-kodiak.html#storylink=cpy" target="_blank">http://www.adn.com/2012/09/26/2640951/texting-woman-falls-off-kodiak.html#storylink=cpy</A></DIV> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:22:55 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/woman-falls-off-cliff-while-texting/m-p/257257#M113972 traveler 2012-10-02T16:22:55Z