SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — It was one of the happiest calls members of the Village of Southampton Volunteer Ambulance have ever made – when, last week, they helped deliver a baby boy in their ambulance.
On Thursday, Dec. 7, at approximately 6 p.m., Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance was dispatched to an active maternity call at the intersection of Hill Street and First Neck Lane, Chief Kyle McGuinness said.
The family was en route to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital shortly before he left, McGuinness said. “The crew arrived on scene quickly, quickly assessed the patient and determined that the patient needed to be moved from the back of the family's car, into the warm ambulance,” he said.
He added: “Once the transfer to Stony Brook Hospital Southampton began, it became very apparent that labor was imminent. Remarkably, the crew delivered a healthy baby boy in the back of the ambulance just before it turned onto Lewis Street.”
The entire crew, McGuinness said, “are so in awe and honored to have played such a critical role in this joyful emergency.”
SVVA members on the call included Chief Kyle McGuinness, Second Assistant Chief Colby Gill, Daniel Foisset, Kristine Lockhard, Corey Hanning-Fromm and Rafal Ziolkowski, he said.
