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Nassau Police Officers, Medic Help Deliver Baby In Ambulance
The mother was on her way to the hospital when she started giving birth, so the officers and medics jumped into action.
ROOSEVELT, NY — Nassau County police officers and paramedics helped deliver a baby in the back of an ambulance early Tuesday morning.
According to police, a police department medic and two officers responded to a call for a woman going into labor in Roosevelt at 3:50 a.m. The woman was loaded into an ambulance and was being rushed to a hospital, but she began to give birth along the way.
The ambulance pulled over onto Hempstead Turnpike, and police officers Coleman and Sheeler assisted police medic McKeown in delivering the baby. The medic was able to monitor the mother with the equipment in the ambulance.
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A healthy baby boy was delivered in the back of Nassau County Ambulance 2377 at 4:19 a.m. Mother and son were taken to the hospital and are both are doing well.
At 4AM Nassau County Police Department Medic McKeown and Officers Coleman and Sheele were transporting a pregnant woman...
Posted by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran on Wednesday, December 16, 2020
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