text: EPPING, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman who became stuck in a swimming pool after the ladder broke turned to Facebook to ask for help getting out. 
   
   Sixty-one-year-old Leslie Kahn was swimming in her pool Aug. 11 when the ladder broke, leaving her stranded. She said she didn't have the strength to pull herself. No one else was home and her cellphone was inside. 
   
   She used a pool pole to drag the chair her iPad was on and posted in a community Facebook page, asking for help. She said she labeled the post "911" to get people's attention. 
   
   A woman who lived nearby showed up, followed by police and a neighbor. 
   
   Kahn, a breast cancer survivor, tells WMUR-TV that sometimes you help others and other times, you ask for help. ||||| EPPING, NH (CBS) – A backyard pool mishap stranded an Epping, NH woman in four feet of water, but also revealed the positive power of social media. 
   
   When Leslie Kahn went for a dip, she didn’t expect her pool ladder to break. But what happened next will renew your faith in people. 
   
   “I swim as often as possible every summer,” Leslie says. 
   
   She had just finished her daily swim on a day a lot nicer than today, but as she started to get out, a step on the pool ladder broke. 
   
   “I had one foot on it, and when I put my other foot on it, it went down. And I cracked my knee,” she says 
   
   Still, she tried to climb out, but just couldn’t manage it. 
   
   “Because I don’t have the agility or the upper body strength that I used to,” she said. 
   
   Now what? “I was thinking I might be here a while because my tenants were out, nobody was home. My phone was inside,” she says. 
   
   But her old iPad was on a chair on the small pool deck, but it was out of reach. Then, ingenuity. “So then I grab the pole. Hooked the leg of the chair. Dragged it over, and got online,” she says. 
   
   She posted her 911 on “Epping Squawks,” a community Facebook group. “Only a few minutes to start getting a response,” Leslie says. 
   
   Offers of help poured in, and people came to Leslie’s house. They tried to fix the ladder, no dice. They tried putting a chair in the water, but it was too tippy. 
   
   “Every idea we thought of didn’t work,” she says. Finally they tried a step ladder. “And I just climbed out. Happily ever after at that point,” she says. 
   
   And a big thank you to the good people of Epping. “People keep saying, ‘I bet you can laugh about it now.’ I was laughing about it then. What else can you do!” she says.
target: – A New Hampshire woman who became stuck in her swimming pool after the ladder broke turned to the loving arms of Facebook to ask for help getting out. "I had one foot on (the ladder), and when I put my other foot on it, it went down. And I cracked my knee," Leslie Kahn tells WBZ-TV of the Aug. 11 incident. The 61-year-old says she didn't have the upper-body strength to hoist herself out, and "my tenants were out, nobody was home. My phone was inside." With few other options, Kahn used a pool pole to drag the chair her iPad was on toward her and posted in a community Facebook page, asking for help. She said she labeled the post "911" to get people's attention. A woman who lived nearby showed up, followed by police and a neighbor. "Every idea we thought of didn’t work," she says, until her rescuers thought to try a step ladder. "And I just climbed out. Happily ever after at that point." Kahn, whom the AP notes is a breast cancer survivor, is apparently no worse for the wear: "People keep saying, 'I bet you can laugh about it now.' I was laughing about it then. What else can you do!"