Special Delivery! Cranford Police Help Deliver Baby In Front Seat Of Car

When Officer Matthew Nazzaro realized Teresa Pires-Ramos was not going to make it to the hospital, he helped deliver her baby in the front seat of a car parked in a Centennial Avenue lot.

The following is a press release from the Cranford Police Department. Patch will have more on this story later this week. On Aug. 3 at approximately 9:28 p.m, Cranford Police officers were called to the parking lot of the Butcher Block, 209 Centennial Ave. for a report of a woman in labor in a parked vehicle. The first to arrive on the scene was Officer Matthew Nazzaro, a certified Emergency Medical Technician and a Basic Life Support Instructor with more than 10 years of pre-hospital emergency medical experience. In the lot, he found Diego Ramos of Cranford and his wife, Teresa Pires-Ramos, who stated she was in labor. The couple had been en route to the hospital, but stopped and contacted 9-1-1 when they realized they weren’t going to …

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