Colorado officers responding to report of a screaming woman help deliver her triplets
Four Colorado police officers were dispatched to a home early one morning to investigate reports of a woman screaming.
Four Colorado police officers were dispatched to a home early one morning to investigate reports of a woman screaming.
None of them could expect what happened next.
The Greeley Police Department officers arrived at the home about an hour away from Boulder at around 3:30 a.m. on April 18 to find the 24-year-old woman actively in labor after her water broke, according to a news release. Almost immediately after they called emergency medical personnel for assistance, they heard a faint cry.
The first baby, a boy, had been delivered — but was turning blue. It was a cold day, and it was raining and snowing, police said.
“One officer located bread ties to tie off the umbilical cord while another ran to nearby homes and collected towels and blankets to help keep the new family warm,” the Greeley Police Department said. “A third officer, who was still with the new mother, then tied off the umbilical cord and cut it. The fourth officer rushed the baby boy back to his patrol where it was much warmer.”
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