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Wells police, fire and EMS personnel recognized after recent life‑saving responses
Summary
The Select Board publicly acknowledged multiple recent responses in which first responders helped save lives and local officers presented a civilian with a citizen-recognition award after she discovered a garage fire.
The Wells Select Board on July 1 recognized police, fire and EMS personnel for multiple recent, successful emergency responses and presented a civic award to a young resident who discovered a garage fire.
Officer Monica Fahey described a May 26 garage fire in which a resident, identified in the meeting as Elizabeth Adams, discovered flames, alerted family members and helped initiate early suppression before crews arrived. Chief Putnam and others presented a plaque and a congressional-letter-style commendation from U.S. Senator Susan M. Collins, and gave Elizabeth a department challenge coin and other tokens of appreciation.
The board also heard details of three separate cardiac-arrest responses in May and…
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