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Maine paramedic killed in early-morning crash

TURNER, Maine — A Wilton paramedic was killed early this morning when an ambulance he was riding in collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Route 4 and Potato Road, police say.

Allan Parsons, 46, was tending to a patient in the back of the Med-Care ambulance, en route from the Rumford area to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Parsons died at the scene, according to the Andrsoscoggin County Sheriff’s Department.

In a written release, Sheriff Guy Desjardins reported that the ambulance -- emergency lights reportedly flashing -- collided with a black pickup crossing Route 4 from Potato Road to Lone Pine Road at about 3 a.m.

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