Firefighters, Medics Deliver Baby Who Couldn't Wait To Be Born

GUILFORD, CT —The sun was soon to rise Tuesday when the Guilford Fire Department B shift got its first 911 call.

Three minutes away from headquarters, the crew of firefighters and medics, with shift 911 dispatcher Brandon Fazzino transmitting the details, headed out at 5:30 a.m. for an “imminent birth.”

Guilford Fire Capt. Brain Manware told Patch that as firefighter medics walked in, the baby was “on his way out,” as in, he was already coming into the world.

“This only happens a couple of times a year, and we usually get them into the ambulance” and enroute to the hospital for delivery before a birth, he said.

Not Tuesday.

Instead, an ambulance crew, followed right behind by the crew of six —Manware, and Guilford Fire Capt. Chris Gode, and firefighter-medics Mike Perez, Chris Jump, Sean Marren, and Ashley Vargoshe — arrived to help deliver the baby who had decided to be born right then and there.

“It’s hard to describe,” Manware said. “You’re there and you just enjoy the moment.”

Though delivering a baby is a “very basic skill that all responders go through, they don’t happen that often,” Manware said.

The procedure for when they do though is to evaluate the mother and child to make sure all is well and then transport to the hospital.

And all was well: he was a healthy baby boy, Manware said.

Welcome to the world, little guy.