{"id":116931,"date":"2026-01-09T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:27:09","slug":"newborn-surrendered-at-lubbock-fire-station-first-time-safe-haven-box-used-in-texas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116931\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn surrendered at Lubbock fire station, first time Safe Haven box used in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 A healthy newborn was surrendered through a Safe Haven Baby Box at a Lubbock fire station, marking the first time the anonymous surrender device has been used in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Lubbock Fire Rescue safely received the baby at Fire Station No. 9 within the last week, officials said. The infant was found to be healthy and is now in the care of medical and child welfare professionals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the mother who made this decision, thank you,&#8221; Derek Delgado, public information officer for Lubbock Fire Rescue, said. &#8220;We do not know your story, we do not know your pain, but what we do know is your heart &#8211; because you chose love, you chose safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Safe Haven Baby Boxes allow parents in crisis to anonymously surrender newborns in a climate-controlled, secure container. When a baby is placed inside and the door is closed, emergency responders are automatically alerted within seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Parents in crisis can call or text the Safe Haven Baby Box hotline at 1-866-992-2291, which is available 24\/7 in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 A healthy newborn was surrendered through a Safe Haven Baby Box at a Lubbock fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-116931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}