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Bemidji, Minn. (AP)

Faint phone signal leads searchers to lost hunter

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Searchers used a faint cell phone signal to track down a lost hunter who was found barefoot in northern Minnesota.

Beltrami County authorities say a dispatcher received a faint cell phone call about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday from a hunter reporting he was lost in the woods. The 44-year-old, Rowdy Allen Schipper, of Puposky, said he had lost his boots and socks.

The dispatcher was able to keep Schipper on the phone long enough to use his cell phone signal to get a general fix on his location. Deputies with the help of a police dog soon found him in the woods just south of Lower Red Lake near Minnesota Highway 1.

The sheriff's office says he was taken to a Bemidji hospital for treatment of frostbite and severe hypothermia.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)