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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Snowplow strikes buried car in Tahoe, police find homeless woman alive and well inside . . .


RENO, Nev. – Police in Nevada found a 48-year-old homeless woman inside a vehicle fully buried in snow this month after it was struck by a snowplow clearing the street. 

The woman was alive and well, according to South Lake Tahoe spokesman Chris Fiore, but her vehicle was completely buried and undetectable to the plow driver.

The plow operator and police who responded to help dig the car out on Feb. 17 had no idea there was a person inside until they saw a hand pressed against the window, Fiore said. 

"With that much snow piled on top of the car ... if the snowplow hadn't hit the back of it we could be having a much different conversation," he said. "She could have suffocated."

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