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A Canadian paramedic responded to a traffic accident last week.

The doctor - Jamie Erickson, fought to save an injured teenage girl, not realizing that it was her daughter, writes "The Guardian".

When Jamie Erickson arrived at the scene of the crash on an icy stretch of Alberta Highway on Nov. 15, she found a teenage girl with severe injuries that Erickson knew were likely fatal.

Due to the severity of the girl's injuries, Erickson was unable to recognize her.

Erickson fought for nearly half an hour to get the girl out of the vehicle and stayed with her while the teenager was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Calgary.

When Erickson got home at the end of her shift, she was met by police who said her 17-year-old daughter, Montana, was the victim of the crash.

She was informed that the injuries were "incompatible with life" and Montana's life support system had been turned off.

“The critically injured patient I had just attended to was my own flesh and blood.

My only child.

My mini me.

My daughter, Montana," she wrote to her family and friends.

 "While I'm grateful for the 17 years I had with her, I'm heartbroken and can't stop thinking about it.

What would you become, my girl?

What would you be?

I'm broken.

I'm devastated.

I'm missing a part of me.

I'm left to pick up the pieces and I'm expected to carry on.''

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Speaking to reporters Tuesday in the Airdrie community, Erickson, surrounded by her family and colleagues, praised her daughter.

“She was a fighter and she fought until the day she died.

She was so beautiful," she said.

Richard Reid, a friend and fellow paramedic, cried several times as he told reporters about the scene of the crash, where a car carrying two teenage girls returning from a dog walk lost control and was struck by an oncoming truck.

The driver was able to exit the vehicle, but Montana was trapped.

Erickson was the first to witness the scene and later expressed her sadness and disappointment to her husband that a family was likely to lose their daughter.

"As both a parent and a first responder, I can tell you that this is more than a nightmare that any of us could ever imagine," Reid said.

Erickson said she wants the world to know about the daughter she lost.

“She would love you madly if you were her friend.

She would love you to the end of the world and back and would do anything for you.

She was a fighter.

And she is fighting,” said the grieving mother.

A swimmer with ambitions to be a future lawyer, Montana was able to give "one last gift" to those in need.

“She was able to donate her organs and two of them were life-saving.

We are so happy that our little girl lives on through others and after this tragedy she saved other people.

We know this is what she would have wanted and we are so proud of her.

We will miss him very, very much", shared the mother through tears.

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