Wayland Firefighters To Reunite With Baby They Delivered, Mom

WAYLAND, MA — The three Wayland firefighters who helped deliver a baby girl at a town home over the weekend will be reunited with the newborn in a ceremony on Thursday.

Firefighters Todd Winner, Lt. Dean Casali and Capt. Daniel Buentello went to an Edgewood Road home on Saturday night to help deliver the baby because the department's ambulance was busy on another call.

Winner was the first person to hold baby Nuha Kidwai before presenting the newborn to mom Safa Kidwai. An ambulance later took the mother and newborn to Newton-Wellesley hospital, but both are home now and perfectly healthy, the department said on Wednesday.

On Thursday, Sufa and Nuha will meet with Winner, Casali and Buentello at the fire department headquarters. Chief Neil McPherson will also present the three firefighters — who are all also EMTs — with pink stork pins to commemorate their effort bringing a baby into the world. Wayland's engine 2 truck will also get a pink stork emblem to commemorate the event.

"The professionalism and training of our Wayland firefighters was on full display, and we are very pleased with the outcome," McPherson said in a news release. "All too often, those in the fire service are running toward the worst possible situations. In this case, while the home birth setting may not have been planned, our firefighters helped play a role in one of the best possible moments for a Wayland family."