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Wardens identify man killed when snowmobile crashes through ice on Maine lake

Wardens say Steven Allard of South Hampton, NH ventured onto a dangerous section of Moosehead Lake

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Wardens identify man killed when snowmobile crashes through ice on Maine lake

Wardens say Steven Allard of South Hampton, NH ventured onto a dangerous section of Moosehead Lake

A New Hampshire man died Sunday evening after his snowmobile crashed through the ice on Moosehead Lake.A spokesman for the Maine Warden Service said game wardens pulled Steven Allard, 56, of South Hampton, from the lake around 10:15 p.m. Allard was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Wardens said Allard and his wife were snowmobiling together on separate sleds and were returning to Rockwood Cottages around 9 p.m. Wardens said when the couple approached the shoreline where the trail meets the lake, Steven Allard headed toward the mouth of the Moose River. That's where his sled broke through the ice.Wardens, Rockwood Fire and Rescue and U.S. Border Patrol responded to the lake. Using a rescue sled, they followed Steven Allard's snowmobile tracks to an area of bad ice where he went into the lake several hundred yards from shore.Allard was unresponsive when he was removed from the lake.“Snowmobilers need to stay be aware of their surroundings and understand that ice conditions can change quickly,” said Sgt. Bill Chandler of the Maine Warden Service. “This section of the lake, where the Moose River flows into Moosehead Lake, always has poor ice, and that is why there are marked trails on the lake so that snowmobilers can avoid the bad ice in this area.”

A New Hampshire man died Sunday evening after his snowmobile crashed through the ice on Moosehead Lake.

A spokesman for the Maine Warden Service said game wardens pulled Steven Allard, 56, of South Hampton, from the lake around 10:15 p.m. Allard was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Wardens said Allard and his wife were snowmobiling together on separate sleds and were returning to Rockwood Cottages around 9 p.m. Wardens said when the couple approached the shoreline where the trail meets the lake, Steven Allard headed toward the mouth of the Moose River. That's where his sled broke through the ice.

Wardens, Rockwood Fire and Rescue and U.S. Border Patrol responded to the lake. Using a rescue sled, they followed Steven Allard's snowmobile tracks to an area of bad ice where he went into the lake several hundred yards from shore.

Allard was unresponsive when he was removed from the lake.

“Snowmobilers need to stay be aware of their surroundings and understand that ice conditions can change quickly,” said Sgt. Bill Chandler of the Maine Warden Service. “This section of the lake, where the Moose River flows into Moosehead Lake, always has poor ice, and that is why there are marked trails on the lake so that snowmobilers can avoid the bad ice in this area.”