Three die shoveling snow in Weld County
Rocky Mountain News
Published December 22, 2006 at midnight
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Three Weld County residents died of heart attacks after becoming exhausted while shoveling snow Thursday, the Greeley Tribune reported this morning.
A Keenesburg man died while a snowplow was carving out a track for firefighters to make their way to his home. The family had given him cardio-pulmonary resuscitation while waiting, but he died before help could arrive.
A Fort Lupton man died outside his home and a second man was
pronounced dead upon arrival at North Colorado Medical Center in
Greeley, the paper reported.
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