The elderly man, believed to be in his 70s, had lived alone in a log cabin near Fort Worth for many years. But he activated a distress beacon to send an SOS signal to tell emergency services he was in trouble. It was picked up 4,500 miles away at the International ­Emergency Response Coordination Centre in Houston, Texas, and relayed to the UK Coastguard. With no means of finding out if it was a false alarm, the ­Coastguard sent up a helicopter from Prestwick, Ayrshire. A winchman found the man seriously ill in his cabin but the surrounding trees prevented him from being winched up.

Source: Daily Mirror February 06, 2019 05:15 UTC