VIDEO: A baby who was delivered inside her home by Anchorage firefighters celebrated her first birthday on Sunday and had a very special surprise at her party.
It was a reunion as baby Cameron Marlin met the crew who welcomed her into the world and also saved her life.
“She wakes every morning with a big, giant smile on her face, ready to play,” Cameron’s mother, Charlisse Walker, said.
Walker also has an 18-year-old daughter who just started school at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She said she was always nervous about having another pregnancy after her first experience.
“It wasn’t a bad experience,” she said. “It was just very painful. It was just a long labor the last time with my older girl... I didn’t think I had it in me to do it again.”
Little did Walker know that 17 years later — her next time giving birth — the process would be much more distressing.