FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WSMV) - First responders across the Middle Tennessee region lined Columbia Avenue Monday afternoon to honor Allan Williams, a flight nurse and paramedic killed in a Vanderbilt LifeFlight helicopter crash Saturday afternoon in Wilson County.

Firefighters, police, paramedics, and other first responders formed a procession to bring Williams to the Williamson Memorial Funeral Home, where loved ones will say their final goodbyes.

The helicopter crash also left another paramedic and pilot with critical injuries.

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Heather Van Laanen, a former EMT, said she didn’t know Williams personally, but stopped to watch the procession pass by.

“It’s especially sad,” Van Laanen said. “You have to put yourself away and

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