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A resourceful Canadian man who’d been missing in the wilderness for more than a week was rescued by helicopter Friday thanks to the “HELP” sign he’d scrawled on a large rock. Rescuers commended his ingenuity but said he was in poor health and might not have survived another day in the woods. The 39-year-old man, identified as Andrew Barber, had gone missing in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in late July, and he was first reported missing to the Williams Lake RCMP on July 31. The agency teamed up with Quesnel Search and Rescue to look for Barber, but the first few days of searching from the air and on the ground were unsuccessful. The area is big, wild, and remote, and McKinnon likened it to looking for a needle in a haystack. The SAR team was finally able to narrow its search Friday, when an RCMP helicopter caught a glimpse of Barber’s truck on a forest service road. An observer in the helicopter then spotted a makeshift shelter nearby that Barber had made out of mud and stick...

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