Baby Boy Delivered Near Cambridge's Porter Square

CAMBRIDGE, MA – It took a village to deliver a baby near Porter Square Monday morning, when a woman began going into labor on the way to the hospital. Police, fire and EMS crews responded to the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Upload Road around 8 a.m. and found the woman and her husband pulled over on the side of the road.

The baby boy, weighing seven pounds and 13 ounces, was delivered inside the couple's Honda Accord around 8:20 a.m. The mother and son were transported by ambulance to a hospital, where police said the pair are resting.

Lt. Joseph Fournier, firefighters Nathan Jarvi, James Kennedy, Michael Donnelly and William Whalen, paramedics Nate Dubreuil and Abigail Moore and police officers Charles McNeeley, Melissa Miceli and Mark Smith assisted in the delivery.

"Everyone within the Cambridge Fire Department, Police Department, Emergency Communications Department and Pro EMS extends their best wishes to the baby and his entire family," Cambridge police said in a press release.

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