FARMINGTON – The first snowfall of the season for most of the county kept police and fire departments busy tending to crashes and rollovers Tuesday.

Within 20 minutes, three accidents required a response by Farmington police, according to a police spokeswoman.

A mid-day squall left a little more than a dusting of snow and slippery conditions for motorists around the county. Accidents were happening “all over the place with vehicles going off the road from Farmington to Carthage,” Chief Deputy Ray Meldrum of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department said. He said most of the calls did not involve serious injuries.

But an accident near Smalls Falls on Route 4 in Rangeley required the LifeFlight air ambulance, said Jerome Guevremont with the Rangeley Public Works Department. No additional information was available Tuesday on the accident.

A couple of inches of snow accumulated throughout the day in Rangeley, but had turned to intermittent rain and snow later in the day, he said. The area received about four inches last week.

Snow in Eustis had slowed by 2 p.m. but it probably wasn’t the end, said Betty Wing, a town resident who’s a National Weather Service observer. Normally Wing can see Sugarloaf and the Bigelow range from her home, but the mountains were not visible even though it had stopped snowing, she said.

The area also received snow Friday, she said. A lot of trees in the region still have snow on them because it’s been so cold, she added. The highest temperature for Tuesday, taken at noon, was under 27 degrees.

In the lower part of the county, these were the first snowflakes of the season, said Harold Souther, a resident of Livermore Falls. “Falling faster than it could melt on the roads,” he said of the snow that started around 10:30 a.m. but was tapering off by early afternoon.