The city of Hialeah made a very emotional recognition to the firefighters who helped bring two emergency babies into the world and not even the mother of one of them expected it.
In front of the Hialeah council and mayor, city firefighter-paramedics received service awards for their work assisting two city-resident mothers in labor.
Mónica Pérez, president of the Hialeah council, remarks that “their ability to solve problems quickly and using critical thinking allowed them to make appropriate decisions, with excellence, as firefighters and paramedics.”
A little over a month ago, Captain Alex Castillo and Lieutenant Luis Fuentes told how they helped a Hialeah resident deliver.
“Being recognized for what we do is a good thing. We use what we know, our education and training to be able to help the residents of the city of Hialeah,” acknowledges Alex Castillo, a firefighter with the city of Hialeah.
For his part, Luis Fuentes warns: “We are here for any emergency problem you have and it is something for which future firefighters should be prepared.”
A little over a month ago, Captain Alex Castillo and Lieutenant Luis Fuentes told how they helped a Hialeah resident deliver.
Jackie did not have time to get to the hospital and had the baby in the parking lot of the fire station number 9. The grandmother was the first to see him after the lieutenant announced that the baby would be born at any moment.
And another time, the firefighters Wilky Celestin and Ricardo Montalván believed that they were going to an emergency in which a woman had pain in the abdomen, but “when we arrived we did not realize that it was actually a baby that was going to be born and there it was. automatically activated the training we have,” says Celestin.
“I told her: ‘it’s a boy,’ and she was surprised, because she didn’t even know she was pregnant. And then we wrapped him up so that he was warm, as a baby should be,” says Hialeah firefighter Ricardo Montalván.
In addition to lives saved from fires, these firefighters add to their professional and personal experience, the experiences of bringing lives to the world.
“They are life situations that happen to you and you have to adapt to face them and move on,” acknowledges Montalván.
The firefighters recognized there by the Hialeah mayor and city council say they have a family connection to these mothers whose babies they helped deliver.
