BREMEN — Game Warden K9 Koda and Game Warden Jake Voter located another missing person early Monday morning, May 23, rescuing a 77-year-old woman who likely had spent two nights in the woods, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, in a news release.

On Friday, Voter and Koda located a missing 11-year-old girl in St. Albans. Late Sunday night at approximately 11:45 p.m., they were called to the scene of a missing 77-year-old woman who lives alone in Bremen. According to the Warden Service, neighbors went to her house to check on her yesterday, and they found her missing with the back door of the house open, and her pocketbook and phone still at the house. Forde was last seen on Friday, May 20.

The neighbors called 911, and a Knox County Sheriff’s deputy and his K9 came and began searching but were unable to pick up any sign or scent of Forde, said the release. Warden Voter and Koda began searching the thick woods behind the house shortly after, and after following an old trail, Koda was able to pick up a scent that led them to Forde, over 600 yards from her house, at approximately 12:40 a.m. this morning.

Forde was alert but severely dehydrated when she was found by Voter and Koda. Forde told Voter that she had fallen, and was too weak to get up, and that she had spent two nights in the woods, according to Wardens.

Forde was examined on site by an EMT, then transported by Bremen Fire and Rescue on an ATV to a waiting ambulance, then transported to Lincoln Health Hospital in Damariscotta.