VIDEO/PHOTOS: Almost five years later, Clearwater first responders reunited with the boy they helped deliver on a boat. Aiden is very much into sports. He’s very athletic. He’s an off the wall boy, said Amber Easterday. That’s how Easterday would describe her son, Aiden. He loves the firetrucks. He does love the fire department, said Easterday. He does love the water. He loves being out on boats, and I think he’s just used to the movement. Hearing that is no surprise when you realize how Aiden came into this world. Its a story ABC Action News shared nearly five years ago.
On July 4, 2020, Easterday went into labor on a pontoon boat during a thunderstorm just off the Courtney Campbell Causeway. Once the boat got back to shore, Kenny Sweitzer Jr. and Tyler Whitfield with Clearwater Fire and Rescue climbed aboard. I got on the boat first. Boat was kind of rocking a little bit, jumped up there. Dad says she’s going to be delivering pretty soon, Sweitzer, a fire medic, said back in 2020. Within minutes, Aiden arrived. I could probably count on my hand the amount of times that we interact with the people we take care of, so its a very rewarding part of the job, Sweitzer told ABC Action News on Wednesday morning. I’m excited to meet him and talk with him and have that moment with him and his family, said Whitfield, a fire lieutenant.
