Teen swept down river in Maine
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Published: July 12, 2009
MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) — A 16-year-old Pennsylvania girl was swept downstream in the Penobscot River in northern Maine, but was able to reach shore just before she would have dropped over a waterfall.
The Maine Warden Service says Rebecca Levine of Pittsburgh floated and bounced two and a half miles downstream and through rapids Friday evening. She is working on trails for a student conservation association.
Wardens say Levine was floating with two other friends near a campground when she was swept downstream. She was wearing a life jacket.
She told wardens she scrambled to get to shore when she heard the noise of the approaching falls, known as the "Big A" Falls.
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