BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 12, 2023
An Ashland man whose car got stuck in the mud in the North Maine Woods survived by wrapping himself in a tarp and sipping rainwater from a towel. A passerby, driving through the woods Saturday to view wildlife, spotted Carl Burke lying at the side of a dirt road near Togue Pond, about 16 miles in from the St. Francis gate. When the wardens arrived, the road was too soft for an ambulance to travel to where Burke lay, so they transported him to a waiting ambulance.