MOXIE GORE, Maine - The Maine Warden Service says a Fairfield woman who wandered off from her group while visiting one of the state's steepest waterfalls was been found alive and safe.
Warden Corporal John MacDonald says 29-year-old Erica LaChance was found by a searcher at about 8:30 this morning. "She was a little bruised up from her overnight stay in the Maine woods, but she is OK."
MacDonald says LaChance was last seen at about 4:15 yesterday afternoon near Moxie Falls, which is near a stretch of the Kennebec River in Somerset County. He says after taking an unfamiliar trail LaChance was separated from three friends and became lost.
MacDonald says LaChance spent the night on the east shore of the Kennebec River after swimming across Moxie Stream. LaChance was cold when found, he says, but she was not hypothermic.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
