MAINE PUBLIC • June 8, 2021
The Maine Warden Service is warning boaters to wear life jackets and swimmers to exercise caution after three recent deaths involving inexperienced swimmers. The agency has recovered the bodies of two of the swimmers, who went missing on Messalonskee Lake on Monday. Another recent death occurred in Buxton on Sunday afternoon, when a man fell into a deep section of the Saco River. And on Monday, a 13-year-old girl had to be rescued from the Androscoggin River after falling into a section in Greene.