Crime & Safety
Mansfield Fire Helps Deliver Baby in TGI Friday's Parking Lot
This week, Mansfield firefighters and paramedics helped deliver a baby in the parking lot of TGI Friday's at Mansfield Crossing.
Some babies can't wait to enter this world, as was the case Monday morning in Mansfield.
After panicking and calling 911 when her baby started to arrive sooner than expected while driving to Brigham and Women's Hospital, Angela Shea of Norton gave birth to her daughter Madison at 4:27 a.m. in the parking lot of TGI Friday's at Mansfield Common with the help of Mansfield fire and EMS.
Shea, along with her husband and daughter were met at the shopping center by a couple of police officers, paramedic Justin Sliney, and EMT Bruce Naslund according to the Sun Chronicle.
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After giving birth, two more paramedics arrived from the North Main Street fire station to cut the baby's umbilical cord and to take the Shea and her new daughter to Norwood Hospital.
"They knew what they were doing and they were very professional. It made a tough thing a lot easier," Mary's husband Scott Shea told the Sun Chronicle.
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After arriving on the scene, paramedics only needed 16 minutes for the child to be born.
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