DIXFIELD — A teenager was injured late Saturday afternoon in a snowmobile incident near Mountain View Campground off Route 142.
According to radio traffic to responders, the 16-year-old youth fell off a snowmobile and suffered a possible broken leg.
Dixfield and Mexico firefighters, Dixfield police and Med-Care Ambulance participated in the rescue. The incident is being investigated by Maine Warden Norman Lewis.
Mexico fire Chief Gary Wentzell brought the department’s rescue sled to the scene, onto which the youth was lifted using a litter. He was taken by snowmobile across a field to Mountain View Drive and the ambulance. The teen was then taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
Further details about the 4:56 p.m. incident were not available.
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- Mexico Fire Department rescuers take a teenager injured Saturday afternoon in a snowmobile incident near Mountain View Campground off Route 142 in Dixfield to a waiting Med-Care Ambulance for transport to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
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- Rescuers at right lift a teenager into a rescue sled on Saturday afternoon. The teen was injured in a snowmobile incident near Mountain View Campground off Route 142 in Dixfield. Police Sgt. Jeff Howe, center, gathers information for Maine Warden Norm Lewis who investigated the incident.
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- A Med-Care Ambulance Service crewman loads a teenager injured in a snowmobile incident into an ambulance near Mountain View Campground in Dixfield on Saturday. The teen was taken to a Lewiston hospital.
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