Memorial Scheduled for 3 Members of Ski Patrol

A memorial service will be held today for three members of the Mammoth Mountain ski patrol who were killed in an accident last week.

The Mono County coroner has concluded that Charles Walter Rosenthal, 58; John "Scott" McAndrews, 37; and James Juarez, 35, died April 6 of suffocation and asphyxiation by volcanic gases.

McAndrews and Juarez were trying to move a fence around a volcanic vent on the Christmas Bowl slope when the deep snow, warmed by the hot gas, collapsed and they fell in. Rosenthal died trying to rescue them.