Tropical vacation accident kills chef who worked at Michelin-starred restaurant

An acclaimed pastry cook was killed by a boulder during a picturesque hike connected the Hawaiian land of Kauai, officials said.

Gianna Buzzetta, a 26-year-old from California, was deed by a falling boulder connected March 23 arsenic she was exploring the Makaleha Falls successful Kauai with her boyfriend, Connor Quinton, the Kauai Fire Department said.

"They heard a truly large noise. [Quinton] looked up, but couldn’t fig retired wherever the sound was coming from," her dad, Sal Buzzettta, told 10News. 

"Within a second, it happened … The stone dislodged from rather a ways up … past it landed connected her," helium said.

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Gianna Buzzetta, 26, was deed by a falling boulder connected March 23 arsenic she was exploring the Makaleha Falls waterfall successful Kauai with her boyfriend, Connor Quinton. (Buzzetta family)

Due to the distant location, determination was nary compartment service, and Quinton sprinted to find help. According to the Kauai Fire Department, erstwhile archetypal responders arrived, they recovered Buzzetta unconscious astatine the basal of the falls, with labored breathing and dense bleeding from an evident caput wound.

The cook needed to beryllium airlifted to a section hospital, wherever she was aboriginal declared dead.

Caty Buzzetta, Gianna's mother, said that Quinton was fulfilling her daughter's lifelong imagination to hike the 5.2-mile circular travel hike to the cascading waterfall. 

"She had told her boyfriend, Connor, that day, helium had fulfilled her dreams, and it was the champion time of her life," Caty Buzzetta told KGTV.

The mates was acceptable to get engaged and commencement a beingness unneurotic anterior to the freak accident, her parents shared.

Gianna Buzzetta, 26, was a rising prima astatine a Michelin edifice successful California. She worked arsenic a pastry cook there. (JEUNE ET JOLIE/Instagram)

Buzzetta was a pastry cook astatine Michelin-starred French edifice Jeune et Jolie, successful Carlsbad, California. According to an online fundraiser, Buzzetta helped the edifice execute 3 Michelin stars implicit the years.

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"She was a immense portion of the team. Super creative, ace talented, incredibly hardworking," her boss, John Resnick, told Fox 5 San Diego. "Humble, assured — I mean each these things that we privation to spot successful the radical we enactment with. So from that nonrecreational endowment standpoint, she was incredible… Our full squad loved moving alongside her."

Gianna Buzzetta's boss, John Resnick, shared however the 26-year-old's enactment ethic and endowment helped the squad enactment towards success. (John Resnick/Instagram)

In a station connected their Instagram page, Jeune et Jolie announced that it is raising funds for Buzzetta's household by providing a peculiar meal service.

"Gianna was our erstwhile Pastry Chef, and our friend. She brought specified joy, intensity, passionateness and emotion to this edifice and to our team," the restaurant's squad wrote. "Her abrupt nonaccomplishment leaves each of america heartbroken, and searching for ways to beryllium of assistance to her family."

"And so, we are doing the 1 happening we cognize however to do. We are coming unneurotic arsenic a restaurant, and welcoming guests successful to observe the relationships that springiness our lives meaning," they said.

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to Jeune et Jolie for comment.