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POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Polk County first responders came together earlier this week to support a paramedic who was critically injured in a crash earlier this month.
John Parris, a 32-year-old firefighter and paramedic, was in the back of an ambulance tending to a patient when the vehicle was struck by a pickup truck towing a trailer.
The crash happened at around 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 8 at the intersection of Lucerne Park Road and U.S. Highway 27, Polk County Fire Rescue said…