Family warns Iowa girl missing in national park is in ‘imminent danger’

A 13-year-old Iowa girl sent an “SOS” text before disappearing in a national park with an older teenage boy — and is believed to be in “imminent danger,” her family said in a new report.

Erica Gamerdinger, of Edgewood, was on vacation with her parents at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park on Monday when she sent the startling cry for help with a map of her location — then disappeared with 15-year-old Keith Griffith of Speedwell, Tennessee, her mom, Jen Gamerdinger, told WYMT She was last seen by a ranger in a campground at the park — a vast Appalachian forest with 84 miles of hiking trails along the borders of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia — and may now be headed to Colorado or Alaska, according to the local station.