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Paramedics help deliver baby in car outside Calgary ambulance base

Paramedics helped deliver a baby inside a family vehicle parked outside their south Calgary ambulance base Thursday morning.

Family was driving near Southgate EMS station when woman suddenly went into labour

The woman and her newborn son were taken by ambulance to hospital after the birth, which took place inside the family's vehicle. (David Bell/CBC)

Paramedics helped deliver a baby inside a family vehicle parked outside their south Calgary ambulance base Thursday morning.

A woman and her family were driving near theSouthgateEMS station around 8 a.m.when she suddenly went into labour, said EMS spokesman AdamLoria.

While the station is not a medical facility, the family pulled into the parking lot and a relative ran up to ring the buzzer.

Loria said paramedics rushed outside to assess the woman, then helped her deliver the baby a boy while stillinside the vehicle she arrived in.

Both mom and son were then transported to hospital, by ambulance this time.