VIDEO: These parents will have a story to tell. On Tuesday, around 8:45 a.m., Pepper Pike Police received a call from a father-to-be about his wife being in labor.
The father told police contractions were two minutes apart and the baby was crowning. He said they were getting on I-271 northbound from Chagrin Boulevard and needed to pull over. At that point, the Pepper Pike Fire Department was dispatched to the scene. “He said he could see the baby’s head start crowning, and we got called and we’re dispatched up to the highway,” Pepper Pike Fire Lt. David Tapp told News 5.
First responders arrived on scene, and Pepper Pike Police blocked off traffic before firefighters helped deliver the baby. “We just assisted the mom with labor, pushing,” Tapp said. “She knows how to; she’s said it’s her second baby, so she knows what she was doing and [we] just assisted and โฆ we’re there to make sure there’s no complications.” Tapp said this is the first time in his 25-year career he has done something like this.
