VIDEO: Like a scene from a movie, a pregnant woman in labor and her husband ended up at the District 3 fire station in Battle Ground, Washington, on Tuesday. “They couldn’t drive due to the ice. Even their windshield was a sheet of ice. They were having difficulties getting here,” said firefighter Adam Strizak.
Childbirth can be dangerous, and so can fires. But that’s about all those two situations have in common. Though as an EMT, there's some education, albeit small. “There's a few ride-along clinical hours that you perform. OB childbirth is a small section in that,” said Strizak. “Do we have an ambulance yet? Because we’ve been getting a hard time getting ambulances that night because of the weather, through the ice storm and just high call volumes."
But the clock kept ticking, and the contractions got closer.