By MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Sunday, August 25, 1991
The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A08
A routine call to pick up a dialysis patient Saturday morning turned joyous for two emergency medical technicians and a couple whose baby girl they helped deliver in the Holy Name Hospital parking lot.
Frank Sapienza and Carl Putkowski Jr. of Adamo Medical Services in Pompton Plains were at the back of an ambulance about 10:25 a.m. preparing to take a 79-year-old Garfield man home when a car screeched into the lot.
An agitated man came running out of his car toward the men. “My wife, my wife, she is having a baby,” the man said to Putkowski.
Sapienza and Putkowski, neither of whom had delivered a baby before, ran to the car.
At 10:30 a.m., in the back of a blue Ford Taurus, they assisted in the birth of an 8-pound, 3-ounce girl.
“It was an experience beyond belief,” Putkowski said. “It’s such a heartwarming feeling, to bring a life into the world. That is just something spectacular.”
A nursing supervisor at the hospital confirmed the men’s exploits but was unable to provide additional information on the birth or the family.
Keywords: TEANECK; BABY; PEQUANNOCK; GARFIELD; AMBULANCE; RESCUE
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