Azambuja Volunteer Firefighters performed a childbirth in an ambulance outside their station in the early hours of Thursday.
The pregnant woman arrived at the station, already in labor, around 2:45 a.m., transported by her family car and accompanied by relatives.
The on-duty crew members, Iva Silva and Érica Gomes, supported by three other colleagues, took the woman to one of the ambulances where they conducted an “assessment.”
Realizing it was a case of “imminent birth,” they took “precautionary measures” and prepared the necessary “equipment to receive the baby.”
“A calm delivery conducted by excellent professionals. The Medical Emergency and Resuscitation Vehicle (VMER) was on site for evaluation, concluded everything was normal, and indicated transporting mother and daughter to Beatriz Ângelo Hospital [in Loures],” states the Azambuja Firefighters’ Facebook page.
Outside the ambulance, the father and grandmother celebrated the birth of the baby girl, “happy and euphoric” knowing both mother and newborn “were well.”
The family thanked the Azambuja Firefighters for their “support and professionalism,” while the corps wished “much health and happiness to the princess and her entire family.”
Azambuja Firefighters have been in existence since March 1932, after the dissolution of the town’s municipal fire department.
According to their website, the organization’s mission includes “fire prevention and fighting,” providing assistance to populations in “cases of fires, floods, collapses and, generally, all accidents,” and rescue operations for “shipwrecked persons and underwater searches,” among other challenges.
