Poor cell service prompts unnecessary search-and-rescue in Quebec

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Dropped call in Quebec wilderness leads to three-day search for forestry worker who was not missing.OTTAWA — A 25-year-old man who was the subject of a three-day search in a massive swath of wooded lakeland near Maniwaki called Quebec police on Monday to report that he was not missing after all. The forestry worker called 911 on Friday over a choppy cellphone connection to report that was lost in the Zec Pontiac, a 1,200-square-kilometre territory.

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