{"id":82654,"date":"2025-12-28T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82654\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:47:14","slug":"emts-deliver-baby-on-side-of-bronx-highway-during-friday-nights-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82654\/","title":{"rendered":"EMTs deliver baby on side of Bronx highway during Friday night\u2019s snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ice, ice, baby!<\/p>\n

Two intrepid EMTs helped deliver a baby on the side of a Bronx highway in the middle of Friday night\u2019s big snowstorm, according to an FDNY post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

EMTs Henry Garcia and Rachel Rosado from FDNY EMT Station 3, serving southeast Bronx and Castle Hill<\/a>, responded to a call for a woman in labor. They quickly realized, though, the baby was arriving sooner than expected.<\/p>\n

As the baby\u2019s head began to emerge, the cool-headed medics pulled over to safely deliver the child on the side of the Bronx River Parkway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Garcia was experienced in child delivery, already having a few under his FDNY EMT belt. Meanwhile, it was a first for Rosado while on the job. Yet the two partners worked together seamlessly, chalking their teamwork up to their excellent communication.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was my first delivery, and communication is what made it possible,\u201d Rosado said. \u201cOnce we realized it was an imminent delivery, everything clicked. We bounced off each other and delivered the baby instantly with no complications. My partner guided me through every step, and we worked together to make sure the baby and mother were safe. Despite the circumstances, it turned into a beautiful delivery, and it\u2019s something I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was my third delivery, and I know how important communication was in that moment,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cI told my partner that the second (the woman) felt uncomfortable or noticed crowning, we would pull over. Once that happened, we made the call to pull over on the Bronx River Parkway and deliver the baby right there. Everything went smoothly because we trusted each other and stayed focused on doing what was best for the mother and baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the 91st baby delivered by FDNY EMS<\/a> in New York City in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cMom and baby are doing well thanks to clear communication, teamwork and decisive action,\u201d the FDNY said. \u201cMoments like this are a reminder that an EMT\u2019s call to action can happen at any time, and FDNY members are always ready to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ice, ice, baby! Two intrepid EMTs helped deliver a baby on the side of a Bronx highway in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-82654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82654","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=82654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}