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By Diana Bowley of the News Staff - BIG MOOSE MOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP - Local game wardens assisted by the Maine Forestry Department rescued a New Hampshire woman on Wednesday who reportedly suffered a heart attack while hiking Big Moose Mountain. Susan Peters, 47, of Dublin, N.H., had been hiking near the top of the mountain with her husband, Steve Peters, and other family members when she became ill, according to Warden Adam Gormely of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Peters, who is a doctor, made a cellular telephone call to the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Department at about 1:30 p.m. advising them that his wife had suffered a heart attack and needed help, according to Gormely. "It was [a] very mountainous [rescue]," Gormely said Wednesday. "It was all uphill." As six game wardens hiked up the mountain, pilot Otis Gray and Bruce Reed of the Maine Forestry Service in Greenville ferried medics and Greenville firefighters to the summit. Peters was carried about a half-mile on a litter to the top of the mountain where she was placed in the forestry helicopter and flown to Charles A. Dean Memorial Hospital in Greenville. A nursing supervisor at the Greenville hospital said Peters was admitted to the hospital and was in good condition. Gray later returned and airlifted the wardens and Greenville firefighters to the base of the mountain. |