Marine Patrol Specialist Mike Forgues checks an item floating on the partially frozen Kennebec River as Game Warden Bob Decker pilots a Warden Service airboat on Thursday afternoon in Augusta. The state agencies responded to assist Augusta Police and Fire departments respond to a call of a mysterious brownish orange object that looked like a sleeping bag but turned out to be just a large rolled up construction tarp.

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