Mother, son die after being buried under 3 feet of snow

A mother and her 7-year-old son died after they were discovered buried under snow just feet from their front door in what Northern California authorities are calling a “freak accident.”

The Alpine County Sheriff’s Department said that Olga Perkovic, 50, of San Francisco and her son Aaron Goodstein had been skiing in Kirkwood, which is in the Sierra Nevada near the state line. They were returning home from the slopes Sunday when a chunk of snow about the size of a trailer fell from the roof of their vacation condo, burying them under about 3 feet (0.91 meters) of snow.

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“It was a freak accident,” said Undersheriff Spencer Pace. He said warming temperatures often cause large chunks of snow to slide off roofs, occasionally injuring people. But he said neither he nor the sheriff can recall of sliding snow

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