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A vivid picture of the first five hours of the struggle to save Natasha Richardson's life following a fall during a ski lesson has emerged in a Canadian newspaper.

Transcripts of the 911 radio dispatches and emergency calls following the actress' skiing accident at Mount Tremblant in Quebec on Monday, March 16, and obtained by Canada's Globe and Mail news

Natasha Richardson, a film star, Tony-winning stage actress and a member of the famed Redgrave acting family, has died. She was 45. Richardson died after suffering injuries in a fall on a ski slope at a Quebec resort about 80 miles northwest of Montreal. She was talking and joking after the fall, resort officials said.

Actress Natasha Richardson was reportedly recovering in a New York City hospital on Wednesday, the day after she was seriously injured during a ski lesson in Canada.