Officers deliver baby in backseat after panicked father rushes into police station

What started as an emergency stop became a life-changing moment for a pair of Woodstown police officers in South Jersey. Overcoming a language barrier and relying on their instincts, which did not include medical training, this pair helped bring a baby into the world on the side of the road. A panicked father runs into the Woodstown Police Department. Minutes later he returns to his parked car on West Avenue with patrolman Benjamin Haynes and Gabriel Chiarelli. As we were running across the street, we called the ambulance. But when the officers get to the backseat, they saw a woman in active labor. We weren't really expecting that, especially the baby coming out when we opened the car door. The biggest challenge, the language barrier. Relying on Google Translate, Haynes and Chiarelli coached the woman through the contractions and delivered a baby girl. So we couldn't really say much, but I just told her to breathe and push and she did and out came the head and I held the head until the rest of it came out. This was a first for both officers who have been on the force less than two years, but they acted without hesitation. Then the whole baby came out and I was just holding it. We got some blankets, put a blanket on the mom and then the baby on the blanket and then covered it with another blanket just to keep it warm. A little more than 10 minutes later, medics arrived on scene. I communicated with the mom a lot with thumbs up. You know, I give her a thumbs up. She give me one back. That's how I knew she was okay. Didn't have much time to think. They just reacted. They did everything, everything that they possibly could have. They did it right, going above and beyond. But both would say it's part of the job. We didn't have much of a choice. We just had to do it. We had to do and we're just glad everything worked out. This is what we signed up to do. We signed up to help people on a time of need, and that was she was definitely in a time of need there. Now they're both two of the department's newest officers, and the chief says that he's been with the department since 2000 and five, and this is the first time that they've had to deliver babies, especially on the side of the road. If you know a first responder who has gone above and beyond while on the call duty, be sure to let us know and to six abc dot com slash heroes.