CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (AP) — High wind contributed to a chair lift accident at the Sugarloaf ski area that caused skiers to plummet 25 to 30 feet, sending eight to hospitals and stranding others for more than an hour, state investigators said Wednesday, but they’re not ruling out other factors. The 35-year-old lift, which recently […]
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Couple describes chairlift mishap
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — It sounded like a roller coaster going uphill, skiers Allison and Terry Rose of Massachusetts said Tuesday. The Spillway East Chairlift they were on made a “clunk, clunk” sound and there was a huge crash. Three of the chairs went crashing to the slopes at Sugarloaf. The Roses were three chairs behind […]
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Skiers tumble from chairlift
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Eight skiers were injured and dozens more left dangling in a freezing blow Tuesday when three chairs on a chairlift at Sugarloaf crashed about 30 feet to the ground when a cable derailed. Rebecca London, one of the skiers who tumbled to the snow, told The Associated Press that her face hit […]
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Six injured, others rescued safely when ski lift derails
The Spillway chairlift has two sides one is a longer than the other and goes higher up the mountain to an elevation of about 3,800 feet. That side, known as Spillway Longside or Spillway East was the lift that derailed Tuesday morning. CARRABASSETT VALLEY — A chairlift derailed at Sugarloaf Tuesday morning injuring six people […]
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Sugarloaf hosts disaster drill Sunday
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Sugarloaf will host representatives from New England ski resorts and local, county and state emergency response agencies to test their readiness in the event of a full-scale emergency during a drill Sunday, Nov. 7. The drill is designed as a learning exercise for ski resorts and emergency management agencies and will simulate […]
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Parts of school bus, truck collide
CARRABASSETT VALLEY – No one was injured Monday after parts of a SAD 58 bus and a pickup truck clipped each other on Route 27, police Chief Scott Nichols said Tuesday. The school bus, driven by Michael Steward, 51, of Stratton, was traveling north when the mechanical arm of the stop sign on the bus […]