Yosemite hospitality worker dies day after she’s found with severe injuries, rangers say
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A 34-year-old hospitality worker died one day after rangers found her with “severe” injuries in a Yosemite National Park housing facility, officials said.
Rangers and rescue personnel found her at a concessioner housing facility March 20, National Park Service officials said in an emailed statement.
Rescuers took her to a hospital in Fresno, where she died the next day, the statement said.
The park service’s Investigative Services Branch is investigating the death along with the Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office and the FBI, the statement said.
The worker was not identified, but officials said she was from Fresno.
The agencies involved also didn’t describe her injuries or say whether the incident seemed linked to a crime, NBC News reported.
Officers were called to the employee housing unit to respond to a medical emergency, officials said in the statement.
And while the FBI is leading the investigation, local officials are “assisting in the investigation to see if it is indeed suspicious,” sheriff’s spokesperson Tony Botti told The Los Angeles Times, adding that “nothing lends itself to that at this point.”
Yosemite National Park is about a 60-mile drive north from Fresno.
This story was originally published March 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM with the headline "Yosemite hospitality worker dies day after she’s found with severe injuries, rangers say."
