The victims
plunged about 25 feet from a lift at the Ski Granby Ranch in
Granby, Colorado, at about 9:30 a.m. Mountain Standard Time
(11:30 a.m. EST), Schelly Olson, a county public information
officer, said in a telephone call.
Olson said the 40-year-old woman was pronounced dead at Middle
Park Medical Center. Her 9-year-old daughter was airlifted to a
separate children's hospital, where she was listed in stable
condition.
The woman's other daughter, 12, was treated at Middle Park
Medical Center before being released on Thursday afternoon,
Olson said.
Names of the victims, who were visiting Colorado from San
Antonio, Texas, were not immediately released by authorities.
Olson said the incident was being investigated by the Colorado
Passenger Tramway Safety Board and local authorities, who were
interviewing witnesses, but that it was too soon to determine
what caused the fall.
"This is such a rare occurrence, people don't fall off of chair
lifts at all," she said.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Richard Chang)
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