Visitor killed by a falling tree at national monument ID'd
Posted October 24, 2016 7:00 am
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Authorities at New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument have identified the female park visitor killed by a falling tree earlier this month as an Illinois woman.
The Los Alamos Monitor reports (https://goo.gl/tqQcgH ) Bandelier National Monument Superintendent Jason Lott says 81-year-old Beverly Modlin of Wheeling, Illinois, was fatally struck by the falling tree Oct. 3 while visiting the park.
Officials say Modlin was returning to her car in the Frey Trailhead parking lot when a live Ponderosa reportedly snapped in half.
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Information from: Los Alamos Monitor, http://www.lamonitor.com
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