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In this Monday, July 11, 2016 photo provided by the Sunday River ski resort, men inspect wreckage of the top unloading terminal of the resort's Spruce Peak Triple ski lift after it detached from the foundation in Newry, Maine. A resort worker first noticed it Sunday evening, and engineers are trying to determine what happened. It was Maine's third major ski resort chairlift failure in six years. The lift was not in operation at the time, and there were no injuries.
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