STUDENT DIES IN FALL AT PURGATORY CHASM

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 28, 2002| Author: Megan Matteucci, Globe correspondent | Copyright information

A Rhode Island School of Design student died Friday after falling 60 feet while hiking in the Purgatory Chasm State Reservation in Sutton, Mass.

Kira Fischer, 21, of West Hartford, Conn., was hiking with two friends at about 10:30 a.m. when she slipped near the Lover's Leap area, State Police Sergeant David Paine said.

More than a dozen Sutton police and fire officials responded, along with State Police from the Grafton barracks.

Fischer was found unconscious and

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