CAMDEN — Family, hikers, and first responders attempted to save a man who was suffering a medical emergency this afternoon, Aug. 22, while hiking close to the summit of Megunticook Mountain in the Camden Hills State Park. The man died close to the Ocean Lookout section of the mountain trail, overlooking Penobscot Bay.

Camden firefighters, North East Mobile Health Services EMTs and one staff member of the Camden Hills State park helped carry him back down to a waiting vehicle on the Mt. Battie access road.

Police later identified the man as Martin J. Matteo, Jr., of Massachusetts.

The call came during the early afternoon, at 1 p.m., as a party of hikers reported the emergency from near the top of Megunticook Mountain.

North East Mobile Health Services sent a crew to the mountain, with cardiac equipment, where they joined a party of seven Camden firefighters. They drove one-quarter mile up the Mt. Battie access road where they parked and hiked along Megunticook Mountain trails to Ocean Lookout, which is near the mountain’s summit.

Meanwhile, a nurse and a doctor, who had been hiking that trail in proximity to the man and his family, tried to save him, who was in in early 50s. They worked while waiting for assistance, attempting cardiopulmonary resuscitation, to no avail.

Firefighters and EMTs walked up approximately 1.5 miles to the scene and then carried the man in a Stokes basket back down the trail to the road, which took approximately two hours.

Those responding included North East crew members Joshua Conway, Riley Pehson and Alex Winn, as well as Camden Fire Chief Chris Farley and firefighter Todd Anderson, Tracy Harford, Matt Heath, Jared Lindsey, Taylor Benize and Gabe Whitehead, and Camden Hills State Park staff member Morgan.

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