{"id":975281,"date":"2022-02-03T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/watch-firefighters-deliver-baby-in-jimmy-johns-parking-lot-during-snowstorm\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T20:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:43:28","slug":"watch-firefighters-deliver-baby-in-jimmy-johns-parking-lot-during-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/watch-firefighters-deliver-baby-in-jimmy-johns-parking-lot-during-snowstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Firefighters deliver baby in Jimmy John&#8217;s parking lot during snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Firefighters-deliver-baby-in-Jimmy-Johns-parking-lot-during-snowstorm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wbVGATBt-dc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Plainfield firefighters deliver baby during blizzard\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wbVGATBt-dc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Firefighters in Illinois helped deliver a baby in the parking lot of a Jimmy John&#8217;s sandwich shop when the parents were unable to make it to a hospital in time during a snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p>The Plainfield Fire Protection District said firefighters were dispatched Wednesday morning on a report of a woman in labor in a business parking lot.\n<\/p>\n<p>The district said in a Facebook post that a healthy baby girl was born within seven minutes of firefighters&#8217; arrival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The call actually came in at the parking lot of Jimmy John&#8217;s, which is actually kind of crazy because you know Jimmy John&#8217;s &#8216;freaky fast&#8217; and this was a freaky fast birth,&#8221; Chief Jon Stratton told WFLD-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Stratton and Lt. Bryan Gallup said it was the first time they&#8217;ve been called out to deliver a baby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wrapped the baby up, dad cut the cord, we took the baby into the ambulance from there to keep it warm because it was obviously pretty cold out,&#8221; Gallup said.<\/p>\n<p>Mother and baby were taken to AMITA Health Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, where doctors said they were doing well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really nasty weather out there and it made that day turn into a sunshine day. I mean, it&#8217;s so overwhelming to be able to do this and to change somebody&#8217;s life. It&#8217;s crazy, it&#8217;s phenomenal,&#8221; Stratton said.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212; Firefighters in Illinois helped deliver a baby in the parking lot of a Jimmy John&#8217;s sandwich shop when the parents were unable to make it to a hospital in time during a snowstorm. The Plainfield Fire Protection District said firefighters were dispatched Wednesday morning on a report of a woman in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}