TOWNSHIP 16, RANGE 5 (AP) – A Fort Fairfield teenager who got lost while snowmobiling on Square Lake northwest of Caribou has been rescued by game wardens who found him curled up in the woods in 10-degree weather and blowing snow.
The Maine Warden Service says 19-year-old Lyman Messer was fading in and out of consciousness when wardens Gary Sibley and Adrian Marquis found him early Thursday morning after following snowmobile tracks.
Messer was wearing a wool pea coat, a T-shirt, shorts and boots. After Sibley gave Messer his snow pants and Marquis wrapped him in blankets, the wardens drove him by snowmobile for 45 minutes to an awaiting ambulance on the closest plowed road.
Messer was treated for frostbite at a Fort Kent hospital.
A friend had notified the Warden Service Wednesday night when Messer failed to return from a snowmobile ride.
AP-ES-02-28-08 1647EST
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