Butler County deputy helps deliver baby in back of car
Posted: 12/25/2012
TRENTON, Ohio (AP) - This Christmas will be particularly memorable for a Trenton woman and the sheriff's deputy who helped deliver her baby in the back of a car at a gasoline station.
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said that Heather Fitzgerald was unable to make it to a hospital on time after going into labor on Christmas Eve.So she pulled into a Speedway gas station and dialed 911 around 4 a.m.
Deputy David Runnells arrived to find Fitzgerald in heavy labor in the back seat of her car.
Runnells helped Fitzgerald deliver a baby girl while waiting on an ambulance.
Fitzgerald and her daughter are reportedly doing well at a nearby hospital.
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