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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Chinese foreign exchange student has been found freezing but alive in the US after his parents were extorted out of tens of thousands of dollars in a "cyber kidnapping" scam.
Zhuang is one of a number of foreign students targeted by so-called cyber kidnappers in the US recently, Riverdale Police added in their statement.
Police believe Kai was being controlled by the kidnappers as early as 20 December, when he was seen by officers in Provo, Utah, carrying camping equipment,
But despite the kidnappers not being with Kai, police in Utah still feared for his safety, explaining the state's December temperatures meant there was a risk he could "freeze to death overnight".
Kai was eventually found around 25 miles (40km) north of Riverdale, near Brigham City, in a tent with "no heat source" on Sunday.
He had limited food and water, a heat blanket and a sleeping bag - as well as several phones which police suspect were used to carry out the kidnapping.
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A heat blanket is NOT a heated blanket. It's merely a blanket that traps heat so your own body heat is more effective at keeping you warm.
they're talking about those crappy foil blankets that are better than nothing, but not by much. They are not a heat source... they only help reflect body heat from you and keep it from escaping. these things:
FWIW, I read "heat blanket" as one of those reflective metallic emergency blankets you find in wilderness first aid kits. Better than nothing, but no true heat source, as it isn't powered, electrically or otherwise
How dare you read the article. Bad form.