March 29, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

Baby boy delivered at Orono fire station

ORONO — Local firefighters got an unexpected delivery Friday night when an Old Town woman gave birth in a vehicle parked on the ramp of the Orono Fire Department.

The healthy infant, a boy, was born at 8:25 p.m. as his father was soliciting the aid of firefighters inside the station.

The name of the family was unavailable, though the mother is named Donna and the baby was named Ed, according to firefighter Charles Curtis.

“There was so much going on, I never asked,” said Curtis. The infant apparently wasn’t named after any of the firefighters. “I believe it was something they already picked out,” he said.

The father-to-be was taking his wife to the hospital when the inevitable began to happen, and he stopped on the ramp at the fire station. The father pounded on one of the overhead doors.

“We were sitting around in the engine room talking,” related Curtis. As the firefighters and the father went to Donna’s aid, the baby was born. Blankets were brought to the new mother and child.

“Our main concern was keeping the baby warm,” said the fire- fighter.

“There was an awful lot of commotion,” he continued. “The baby seemed perfectly fine — crying like crazy.”

The Orono Rescue Squad, located nearby, was called and transported mother and baby to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

It was a night for not giving names. A woman who said she lived across the street from the fire station, and next door to a funeral home, also provided a blanket for the mother and infant.

“It was so exciting,” said the woman. “There’s a funeral going on next to me, and a baby being born. It’s great to hear that screaming baby.”


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