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Firefighters Recall 1990s Ambulance Birth During Training

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On March 16, members of the Westville Volunteer Fire Department conducted childbirth and emergency delivery training.


Although childbirth calls resulting in delivery are unusual, firemen reviewed the procedures for properly assisting during a birth if EMS personnel must deliver a baby before reaching the hospital.


Department members stated that the training is based on previous experience, including an instance in the 1990s in which firemen delivered a baby girl in the back of the department's ambulance. Her portrait still hangs inside the ambulance as a memento of that call.

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