As Monday’s snowstorm barreled across the northeast, a woman gave birth to a baby boy inside a car parked along Northern Boulevard in Manhasset.
An excited father called police to say that the baby was coming, officials said. Police then transferred the call to the county’s Medical Control for assistance.
An ambulatory medical technician calmed the father down and gave him instructions to safely deliver the baby.
“Pretty chaotic at first. When he picked up the phone all you heard him say was that, ‘the baby is here, the baby is here,’ AMT Lawrence Loiselle told CBS News.
Loiselle told the network it was the first time he had helped deliver a child over the phone.
Whether you’re delivering a child in person or on the phone, hearing that baby cry is always a good sign. Made me feel really good,” he said.
Loiselle said he told the father to wrap the child in a jacket to keep warm and turn the heat up in the car until help could arrive.
An ambulance arrived at the site moments later and brought the family to a local hospital.
Mother and son, police said, were doing fine.
