Nadia To Rescuers: "Can't Believe You Rescued Me"
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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- It was an answer to many prayers. After days of being lost in dangerous woods near alligator-infested waters, an 11-year-old Seminole County girl was found alive Tuesday...
...James King, who found Nadia, was a member of Metro Church of Christ and knew her family, though he said he didn't know them well. That certainly didn't stop him from searching the woods for Nadia with fellow church members on Monday or dissuade him from returning alone Tuesday.
King was hard to miss as he left the scene Tuesday literally covered in mud (see images). He told one of his pastors that he was nearly waist-deep in mud to get to where Nadia was found, walking alone with a water pack on his back.
King had been part of the search for days, but Tuesday, just hours before experts said Nadia should have been dead, he decided to trek into an area where no one had gone before.
"In all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your path and he directed my path straight to her," King shouted to the crowd, reinforcing the role he says his faith played, after finding Nadia and returning with the rescue crew. "Because I prayed that all the way."
The 45-year-old man told WFTV he works for Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense electronics company with U.S. divisions. He said his boss was very understanding of him missing work to go search.
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