Crime & Safety
Police Officers Deliver Baby Outside Los Angeles Gas Station: Watch
Two Los Angeles police officers helped with an unlikely delivery Wednesday outside a gas station in Van Nuys.

VAN NUYS, CA — Los Angeles police made a "special delivery" Wednesday outside a Van Nuys gas station.
Officer Juan Sierra and Officer Courtney Paar, helped deliver a baby on a concrete sidewalk early Wednesday morning between a stack of water bottle cases and an ice machine. The two officers helped through the entire delivery until the mother and her newborn baby were transported to a local hospital. "Both are doing well," according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Officers responded to a call of a woman needing assistance Wednesday around 4:45 a.m., authorities said. When they arrived, they found the woman in active labor.
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"Oh god, what's — oh she's giving birth, man!" one of the officers said as he approached the screaming woman on the sidewalk. "Are you having a baby?"
"Yes!" the woman responds.
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The department posted a nearly three minute video of officers assisting with the birth. When the baby boy emerged, harrowing seconds pass by as they worry the baby is not breathing. They try tipping him in case there is something in his mouth and supporting his head.
"Is he okay?" the mom asks, as the officers beg the baby to cry.
Finally, around the two-minute mark, the baby cries for the two relieved officers and new mother.
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