{"id":316148,"date":"2025-11-29T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/316148\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:14:11","slug":"newborn-baby-dumped-outside-canberra-fire-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/316148\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn baby dumped outside Canberra fire station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/police\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Police\">Police<\/a> are looking for dashcam footage after a a newborn baby was dumped outside a fire station on the outskirts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/canberra\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Canberra\">Canberra<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A newborn baby was found outside the front door of the\ufeff South Tuggeranong ACT Fire &amp; Rescue Station in Conder, about 30km south of the CBD, about 7.20am on November 27.<\/p>\n<p>Information from the public has led police to believe a blue SUV was at the fire station, located at the roundabout of Tharwa Drive and Drakeford Drive, before the baby was dropped off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c8129964-7586-4c54-a93a-a127637c4143.png\"   alt=\"ACT Policing is urging the mother of the newborn baby to seek medical attention.\"\/>ACT Policing is urging the mother of the newborn baby to seek medical attention. (ACT Policing)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They brought the baby inside under advice of the ACTAS (ACT Ambulance Service) clinician, took care of the baby and called ACTAS, AFP and ACT Policing to come and assist,&#8221; ACT Fire &amp; Rescue superintendent Chris White said.<\/p>\n<p>The baby, who was estimated to be 24 hours old, was taken to hospital by ambulance with no visible injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our sole concern is the health and wellbeing of the mother,&#8221; \ufeffACT Policing detective superintendent Alex Nicolson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I urge the mother to seek medical assistance. Please go to hospital, call an ambulance or call \ufeffthe police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are urging anyone with dashcam footage of the fire station between 5am and 7.30am on Thursday to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Locals who believe a friend or family member may be the mother are asked to encourage her to seek medical help as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for dashcam footage after a a newborn baby was dumped outside a fire station on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-316148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}