Paramedics help deliver baby in car outside Calgary ambulance base

Paramedics helped deliver a baby inside a family vehicle parked outside their south Calgary ambulance base Thursday morning.

A woman and her family were driving near theSouthgateEMS station around 8 a.m.when she suddenly went into labour, said EMS spokesman AdamLoria.

While the station is not a medical facility, the family pulled into the parking lot and a relative ran up to ring the buzzer.

Loria said paramedics rushed outside to assess the woman, then helped her deliver the baby a boy while stillinside the vehicle she arrived in.

Both mom and son were then transported to hospital, by ambulance this time.

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