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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/six-hurt-in-us-ski-lift-accident.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Skiers and lift chairs lie on the slope after a lift derailed on a mountain in Carrabassett Valley, Maine (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-six-hurt-in-us-ski-lift-accident.jpg" alt="Skiers and lift chairs lie on the slope after a lift derailed on a mountain in Carrabassett Valley, Maine (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Several people have been hurt after a chair lift derailed in high winds at Maine&#8217;s tallest ski mountain, sending screaming skiers plummeting 30ft to the slope below.</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Sugarloaf resort in Carrabassett Valley, about 120 miles north of Portland, said about six people were injured when five chairs fell.</p>
<p>The resort&#8217;s ski patrol evacuated the lift, which had recently passed an inspection.</p>
<p>None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, the resort said. The injured were treated and taken to hospitals.</p>
<p>About 220 people were on the lift at the time.</p>
<p>One witness, Jay Marshall, said that after the lift involved had stopped and restarted, there had been a &#8220;loud snapping noise&#8221; followed by screams. &#8220;The next thing I know, it was bouncing up and down like a yo-yo,&#8221; he said. Some skiers tumbled from their chairs.</p>
<p>Jill Gray, a spokeswoman for Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, about 45 miles away from the mountain, said that one person was taken there and flown to Maine Medical Center in Portland.</p>
<p>Another person was being treated in Franklin&#8217;s emergency room, she said, and the hospital expected to receive five more patients. She did not give details on the injuries.</p>
<p>At the time of the accident, high winds were buffeting Maine a day after a blizzard swept across the region. The National Weather Service has no wind sensors near Sugarloaf, but a weather balloon launched in Gray, in southern Maine, showed winds of 40mph at 1,000ft, a weather service meteorologist.</p>
<p>It is unclear whether the accident was wind-related or mechanical.</p>
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