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Scout leader dies on Father’s Day hike with troop, 2 sons
Scout leader dies on Father’s Day hike with troop, 2 sonsBy Associated Press June 22 at 10:02 AM
LANCASTER, N.H. — New Hampshire’s Fish and Game Department says a Boy Scout leader from Maryland has died of an apparent heart attack while on a Father’s Day hike with his troop, which included his two sons.
The department’s Lt. Wayne Saunders says 51-year-old Vernon “Rick” Rippeon of Westminster, Maryland, was one of four adults leading the troop on the first day of a planned five-day presidential mountain hike Sunday.
Saunders said officers received a call regarding a medical emergency on the Crawford Path trail on Sunday morning and that Rippeon suffered a heart attack 1½ miles up. CPR was started almost immediately, but efforts to revive him were not successful.
Saunders said the group was planning on staying at Appalachian Mountain Club huts.
Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
LANCASTER, N.H. — New Hampshire’s Fish and Game Department says a Boy Scout leader from Maryland has died of an apparent heart attack while on a Father’s Day hike with his troop, which included his two sons.
The department’s Lt. Wayne Saunders says 51-year-old Vernon “Rick” Rippeon of Westminster, Maryland, was one of four adults leading the troop on the first day of a planned five-day presidential mountain hike Sunday.
Saunders said officers received a call regarding a medical emergency on the Crawford Path trail on Sunday morning and that Rippeon suffered a heart attack 1½ miles up. CPR was started almost immediately, but efforts to revive him were not successful.
Saunders said the group was planning on staying at Appalachian Mountain Club huts.
Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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