97-Year-Old Yarmouth Man Dies While Cleaning Vent Following Blizzard
YARMOUTH (CBS) – Police said an elderly Yarmouth man died this week, likely while trying to clear out his home's vent following the Blizzard of 2015.
Yarmouth police said they received a call for a well-being check Wednesday on Winding Brook Road for Richard MacLean, 97, after a relative called from Arizona.
Officers had checked on the home earlier in the day, went inside the house and determined that MacLean had left to stay with a neighbor.
But during the second well-being check, police searched the outside of the house and found MacLean in deep snow next to a vent on the side of the home.
Police said it appears MacLean died while trying to clear the vent. His death is not considered suspicious.