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2 Dead in Tahoe-Area Avalanches

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By Chaas Toborg - email

PLACER COUNTY, Calif. - A Sierra ski resort patrol team member who was injured after being caught in an avalanche has died tonight - the second death connected to avalanches that shook the area yesterday.

53-year-old bill foster died in a Reno, Nevada hospital, where he was taken after the avalanche Monday, the Alpine Meadows resort said in a statement today.

Foster was buried in a slide that was intentially set with an explosive device as part of an avalance control project.

An avalanche at Donnner Ski Ranch yesterday also killed 49-year-old Mark Anderson, of Truckee.  

 

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