Overview
- On Sunday around 17:20 local time in Hamburg’s Rissen district, a father stopped at an intersection and called the fire department when his partner went into strong labor.
- A calltaker in the dispatch center coached the father by phone with step-by-step instructions that enabled the delivery before crews arrived.
- Responders found the newborn already delivered, placed the baby in a transport incubator on a specialized vehicle, and reported the child was doing well.
- A pediatric nurse from the newborn emergency service joined en route, and paramedics with an emergency doctor treated mother and infant at the scene.
- Both were transported by ambulance to a clinic in Hamburg-Altona as temperatures hovered near minus 11 degrees Celsius, with the father following the convoy in his SUV.