Bergen Police Officers, First Responders Help Deliver Baby Girl

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — For the second time in less than two weeks, police officers in a local town helped deliver a baby at a home.

Police received a 911 call at about 8:15 a.m. that a 20-year-old woman was in labor, said Bergenfield Police Capt. Mustafa Rabboh. Officers Rick Tauber, Jose Portorreal and Timothy Knapp responded to the scene, along with members of the Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

The police and first responders assisted the woman and, after 20 minutes, a baby girl was born, Rabboh said.

The mother and child were taken to Englewood Hospital Medical Center and are doing well, Rabboh said.

It is the second time in two weeks that police and first responders helped deliver a baby at someone's home.

"Our officers, along with ambulance corps members Melissa Naylis, Katie Rolik, Maxwell Farkas and Jennie Mazzilli, all did a wonderful job," Rabboh said. "Not only do we protect and serve, we also deliver, babies that is."

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Photo: The police officers and ambulance corps members who helped deliver a baby girl Friday. Bergenfield Police Department