Deputy Stranded For 7 Hours In Car During Snow Storm Before Hiking To Nearby Home

HAMLIN TOWNSHIP (WWJ) -- A deputy sheriff in northern Michigan's Mason County was trying to help others when he was eventually found himself caught in a snow storm over the weekend.

The deputy was checking on several abandoned cars in Hamlin Township Saturday when he drove into a snow drift during whiteout conditions.

Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole said that no one was available to get the deputy during the storm, so he waited for seven hours in the car while nearly out of gas when he walked a quarter-mile in sub-zero temperatures to a nearby home.

The homeowners took him in until help arrived. The sheriff said that there was also a 30-car pileup on US-31 during that storm.