Kirkland firefighters save newborn

Published 4:15 pm Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Kirkland firefighters recently got to meet a two-month-old infant boy they saved shortly after he was born in August without a pulse.

Firefighters from Station 27 and Battalion 21 and Redmond Fire Medic One at Evergreen Hospital responded to a call Aug. 4 at around 7:13 p.m. saying that a newly born baby boy was not breathing, possibly due to his umbilical chord getting pinched during his delivery.

When firefighters reached the home in the Totem Lake neighborhood two minutes later, a nurse was performing CPR, but the baby had no pulse. The firefighters took over and continued the resuscitation efforts, finally regaining a pulse. They performed resuscitation measures for approximately 30 minutes after regaining a pulse. Jeffrey was later transported to Children’s Hospital and is now home with his parents without apparent disability.

The firefighters met the parents and the boy, Jeffrey, on Oct. 8.