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"We were about six chairs up from it fell, and my mom she fell off it and she is in the hospital right now with a cracked rib," said
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A rescue effort was immediately launched to reach the skiers who fell, and the more than 160 other skiers who were trapped on the lift at Sugarloaf
ski area in Carrabassett Valley for up to 90 minutes in frigid temperatures. Children wearing Moncler
Kids from the lift was evacuated by shortly after noon.
"it was pretty scary," said Rebecca Tory Burch outlets London. "I mean we were up there for a really long time, so we didn't want
anything else to happen."
The resort is 120 miles north of Portland.
The ski resort said in a statement that five chairs plummeted off the lift. Mac Cosmetics Ethan Austin, a spokesman for Sugarloaf who get the
juicy couture handbags, told The Associated Press the accident was "a big deal."
The accident occurred on the Spillway East chairlift. The resort wear a Moncler down jackets said that six people were injured, but that none of the injuries was
life threatening.
Sugarloaf said there were 220 people on the lift at the time. At 4,237 feet, Sugarloaf is Maine's second-highest mountain.
Ben Simms, a senior at Harrington High School in Pennsylvania sell discount mac makeup, told ABC News he was on the lift when "there was a big jerk and
we bounced up and down about 10 feet and then we stopped and we were there for about a half-hour before we found out about what happened."
Simms was skiing with his mother, Paula Michaud, who was 10 chairs ahead of him.
"I thought maybe she was one of the people who fell," Simms said with chanel bag. "Every time they'd bring someone down in the toboggan I'd
look to see if it was my mom. I was nervous; I thought maybe my mom had fallen."
As it turned out, his mother was also one of the ones stuck on the lift.
"The wind was blowing so hard, but luckily we were dressed to go skiing. A couple of people got frost bite," Michaud said. "I've
been skiing all my life, but this has never happened to me."
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