PARKERTOWN TOWNSHIP – A Maine Game Warden pilot located three missing anglers Thursday morning after the trio spent Wednesday night in their vehicle after it got stuck on the Lincoln Pond Road near Azischos Lake, northwest of Rangeley.
According to Mark Latti, communications director for Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, three individuals were reported being overdue by family members Thursday morning after they failed to return home from a fishing trip. Samuel Luebbert, Jessica Haskell, and Chad Mason, all 23 and from Portland, traveled to the area for a day of fishing, Latti said, but their four-wheel drive vehicle got stuck on an unplowed portion of the Lincoln Pond Road.
Family were unable to contact them with cell phones and Game Wardens, Rangeley police and fire, Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Border Patrol personnel began searching the area Thursday morning. Warden Chief Pilot Jeff Beach located the vehicle at 11 a.m. from the air and Warden Mike Pierre and four U.S. Border Patrol agents rode snowmobiles and one truck to the location to free the stuck vehicle with a winch.
Luebbert, Haskell and Mason were in good health after spending the night in the vehicle, Latti said, and were able to drive back to Portland Thursday.
Thanks to all the services who came out to help. We are so lucky to have them
WHY were these people from PORTLAND travelling to the middle of nowhere? Completely selfish and entitled behavior that put lives of first responders at risk. Charge them for the search.
Hey, Floyd,
Because Janet told them (even encouraged them) to. Get outside yourself. Walk or bike. Take a breath. Fish for free! Wardens need work, too. It’s still their job, man. The zombies you see coming aren’t really there.
@Floyd Marks – Last I knew this was a free country and fishing is an essential activity deemed so by the GUVNA of this great state. If you ain’t been to the MIDDLE of NOWHERE then I suggest going at least as much as possible.
Apparently my censored comment was too sensible for snowflakes.
3 people in a vehicle is not social distancing.
People should be responsible for their own actions. These folks chose to drive on an unplowed road and get stuck. Conditions were not life threatening, they should have walked back to rt. 16 and flagged down someone for help. Instead they chose to hang out and wait for rescue personnel funded by taxpayers. Sad what is happening with this generation…
My comment was also censored. Was it the word flannel? Beard? Portland?
Kiddos from southern Maine where they get a fabulously expensive indoctrination of non- critical thought processing. Dumbing down of America at it’s finest and most obvious. Out fishing? My —!
I was just wondering ,how far North on snow covered roads do Portland people have to travel to find open water to fish.?
Billy and Capt, The censorship on the dawg is typical of the liberal news that’s still in business. Conversation that’s against the party line or our one term governor is strictly prohibited as well as any disparaging of Maine’s great welfare magnet, Portland. The three low IQ folks that got their parents vehicle stuck on an unplowed road, were just entitled mills voters escaping from the China virus, welfare and refugee hotspot of Maine. Real Mainers are staying home, unemployed because our jobs have been deemed unworthy of mills royal blessing. Unlike college administration types, politicians and numerous other chair warmers on the public dime the rest of us are waiting for President Trump, not Mills, to open our state for business.
Great job folks!
It’s always a good feeling going in the wilderness knowing that if something bad happens, there is a group of trained professionals willing to find us.
what a nasty crowd everything is the governor’s fault?
Guess noone here ever goofed and needed help
I have goofed up, broken down, gotten stuck and lost at least a dozen times. ( I used to call that having fun ) Along my journeys I have helped many who were also. I have never called for rescue. I learned, sometimes not enough.
I hope these people that are no doubt way more educated than me learned something. Other than to dial for help. Next time they might not have that option. What do you think their trophy should say?
Its not the ones that know that worry me or the ones that dont know, its the ones that dont know the difference that I worry about. I have to agree with CAPTAIN PLANET on this one. Getting the authorities involved for help would not even entered the head of my generation as long as feet were still working.