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Maine legislators honor late paramedic for decades of service

Maine legislators honored the late Lt. Shannon Haley of the Scarborough Fire Department for her service as a paramedic, nurse, educator and compassionate caregiver

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Lieutenant Shannon Haley.

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By Dana Richie
Portland Press Herald

AUGUSTA, Maine — State legislators presented an in-memoriam legislative sentiment honoring the life and legacy of Lt. Shannon Haley, a paramedic with the Scarborough Fire Department, earlier this month.

Haley, who started with the Scarborough Fire Department as a live-in training paramedicine student at Southern Maine Community College, had a career dedicated to service. She worked with the Windham and Buxton fire departments. In addition to performing duties as a registered nurse, she also taught paramedicine classes at SMCC as adjunct faculty. In 2020, Haley was promoted to lieutenant in the Scarborough Fire Department.

“Lt. Haley was the reassuring voice that patients would hear in the back of an ambulance, and she always put others’ needs before her own,” said Sen. Anne Carney, of Cape Elizabeth. “She will be deeply missed in Scarborough and beyond.”

Haley died on May 2, and in the announcement of her death, Scarborough Fire Chief Richard Kindelan said that “Shannon was a wonderful human being.”

“Her kindness and never-ending love for her family, friends, coworkers and every patient she cared for is unmatched,” Kindelan said. “She routinely put her needs second to others.”

Haley’s family joined Carney, Rep. Kelly Noonan Murphy, of Scarborough and Rep. Sophie Warren, of Scarborough, in the Senate Chamber before the honor was presented, and the Maine Senate adjourned that day in tribute of Haley.

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