Elderly woman collapses, dies at Acadia

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ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — An 83-year-old woman collapsed and died on the steps at Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park around noon on Monday. Alice Garrity, a patient at Bangor Mental Health Institute, was on a sightseeing trip through the park with a number of…
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ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — An 83-year-old woman collapsed and died on the steps at Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park around noon on Monday.

Alice Garrity, a patient at Bangor Mental Health Institute, was on a sightseeing trip through the park with a number of patients from the institute on Monday morning. Garrity apparently collapsed as she was walking up the steps at the scenic overlook.

According to Rob Yates, a district ranger at Acadia, a member of the tour group left the scene to contact local police at a phone booth at Sieur de Monts Springs, several miles away in the park. By the time rangers and ambulance personnel arrived at the scene, Garrity had died.


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