Siren call leads rescuers to woman

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — Sirens and a cell phone helped rescuers find a Gordon woman who was injured in a crash south of Chadron.

Kelissa Lein, 26, lost control of her car a little before 10 a.m. Thursday on U.S. Highway 385. It rolled to where she couldn't see the highway, according to authorities.

She used her cell phone to call 911 in Alliance, but she couldn't say for sure where she was — only that she was south of Chadron.

But, she told the dispatcher, she could hear traffic on the highway.

So dispatchers had rescue units from Chadron and Hemingford turn on their sirens as they drove toward her likely location.

She heard them, and they found her in southern Dawes County.

Lein was taken to Chadron Community Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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