{"id":199906,"date":"2026-04-16T21:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:28:15","slug":"fdny-firefighters-save-baby-after-performing-emergency-nyc-home-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199906\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY Firefighters Save Baby After Performing Emergency NYC Home Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 FDNY firefighters saved the life of a newborn baby in Queens after performing an emergency home birth last Saturday, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Members from Engine 277 responded to a 911 call for an imminent birth at a home on Myrtle Avenue on April 11. <\/p>\n<p>When they arrived at the scene, the baby was already being delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter Jeffrey Jovin, a former paramedic with experience assisting in childbirth, realized the newborn wasn&#8217;t breathing and had no pulse, the FDNY said. <\/p>\n<p>Jovin immediately began CPR as another member assisted with ventilation until EMS arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Together with EMS, Jovin helped cut the umbilical cord and continued lifesaving efforts while rushing the newborn to an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">On the morning of April 11, FDNY members from Engine 277 responded to a call for an imminent birth at a home on Myrtle Avenue in Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving within three minutes, members made their way upstairs to find the baby was already being delivered. Firefighter Jeffrey Jovin, a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LGoZc16FnO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LGoZc16FnO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FDNY (@FDNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDNY\/status\/2044534397819384116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 15, 2026<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p> At the hospital, the baby regained a pulse and began breathing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once we got to the hospital, the baby regained a pulse<br \/>and was breathing. It was a beautiful delivery,&#8221; Jovin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 FDNY firefighters saved the life of a newborn baby in Queens after performing an emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-199906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}