{"id":357953,"date":"2026-07-01T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357953\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:56:11","slug":"mother-safely-surrenders-infant-at-abilene-texas-safe-haven-baby-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357953\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother safely surrenders infant at Abilene, Texas, Safe Haven Baby Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">ABILENE, Texas (KWTX) &#8211;<\/a> A Texas mother used the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Abilene Fire Department\u2019s Station 7 to safely surrender a baby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire station, located at 431 N. Pioneer Drive, was utilized the morning of July 1. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the department, crews responded to the box alarm notification, removed the baby, and performed a preliminary health assessment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The infant was then transported by ambulance to a hospital for further evaluation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fire officials remind the public that the Safe Haven Baby Box at Station 7 is intended to provide a designated location for the safe and anonymous surrender of newborn infant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There are currently 21 safe haven baby boxes throughout Texas. Three babies have been safely surrendered in Texas, according to online reports. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABILENE, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A Texas mother used the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Abilene Fire Department\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-357953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357953","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=357953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}