A woman fought off bees, accidentally started a fire and survived on apples - all after giving birth in a lonely stretch of Northern California forest, she told a Bay Area TV station.
The woman, Amber Pangborn, 35, of Oroville, made a hasty decision to take an unfamiliar shortcut to her parents' house after going into labor on Thursday.
Instead, she got lost.
"I thought we were going to die," she told KCRA-TV. "And there was no cell service, there was no ... there was nothing."
But Pangborn's baby wouldn't wait and she had no choice but to give birth alone. She named her daughter Marisa.
And then came the bees and mosquitoes.
"I tried to not get them to sting her," Pangborn told KCRA. The bees wanted the placenta, she said with a chuckle. She was stung while defending her daughter, she said.
By Saturday, Pangborn's desperation reached a fever pitch.
"I was just there at the end, thinking, 'Oh my God." I wasn't sure if we were going to actually get out of there," she said.
Pangborn started a fire in a desperate call for help but the flames quickly grew out of control.
"Like, the whole side of the mountain caught on fire. I was looking at Marisa and was like, 'I think Mommy just started a forest fire,'" she said.
But the tactic worked. While investigating the fire, Pangborn was spotted.
"I was crying, I was so happy, I thought we were gonna die," she said. "I'm so glad someone had finally seen us."
Mother and baby were rescued from the forest Saturday, Forest Service officials said. Pangborn was being treated at an Oroville hospital, according to KCRA, and the baby was taken to UC Davis Medical Center on Sunday for further evaluation.
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