Pregnant woman dies after Boston baseball game; heat blamed

[Seattle1]

This is too bad. :( Everybody be careful out there in the bleachers in the middle of this weird heat wave at your stadium! Drink water.

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5231421

Pregnant woman dies after Boston baseball game; heat blamed

(Boston, Massachusetts-NBC) August 2, 2006 - A pregnant women died from what is thought to have been heat exposure while attending a baseball game Saturday in Boston, Massachusetts.

Denise Quickenton was seven months pregnant when she collapsed while watching a game at Fenway Park.

Quickenton and her husband Todd were sitting in the bleachers. They attempted to escape the heat under the stands near misters and fans, when she collapsed.

She was rushed to a local hospital where she delivered the baby and then died. The baby was named Maxwell Gregory Quickenton and weighed nearly three pounds.

Todd Quickenton is trying to focus on caring for Maxwell, "I miss her terribly. She was my heart, but I have someone to take of, that needs me to be strong."

[trosmok]

My heart goes out to the family and friends of the Quickentons. The five game homestand here was positively brutal, and trying to find shade, a breeze, and plenty to drink was essential to all in attendance. Fortunately, we had no heat related illnesses that I'm aware of, and the warning signs of heat exhaustion and its deadly follower, heat stroke, are not always evident until it is almost too late. With any luck, the worst of the heat wave that gripped most of the nation is passing, and we won't have to suffer any similar tragedies at the ballparks.

[Baseball Guru]

That is so sad:(