Firefighter helps deliver new baby over phone

by Catriona Cody ©Independent.ie
PUTTING out fires and rescuing people might be all in a day's work for firefighters but it appears that there's much more to the job for some.
A firefighter who yesterday helped a man deliver his newborn baby over the phone said it was the fourth time he'd been involved in an emergency birth in the last three months.
Brian Devlin was on duty in the early hours of yesterday morning when he answered a call from a man in distress. "He told me that his wife had gone into labour and they needed an ambulance right away," said Mr Devlin (29).
"I asked him to check whether there was any sign of the baby yet and when he said no, I told him to sit tight and that an ambulance was on the way.
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