CITATIONS AWARDED FOR EMERGENCY DELIVERY EN ROUTE TO HOSPITAL
On
Monday, June 5, three members of Pleasant Prairie Fire & Rescue were
awarded Unit Citations for their role in the successful delivery of a
baby boy while en route to the hospital with an expectant mother on
March 26, 2017. Firemedics Marshell Gontscharow, Zachary Keller, and
Ronald Weavel received commendations.
As the three Firemedics
were transporting the expectant mother to the hospital it became clear
that they would not make it in time. The rescue squad pulled to the side
of the road, where the baby was then safely delivered.
Following
the presentation of the Unit Citations to the Firemedics, Larry Nelson,
grandfather of the newborn baby boy, presented Pleasant Prairie Fire
& Rescue with a donation to mark the occasion. Nelson donated the
funds to purchase three portable toddler seats which will be placed in
each of the Village’s three rescue squads.
The Pleasant Prairie
Fire & Rescue Department wishes to commend these three Firemedics
for their professional response and to sincerely thank the Larry Nelson
family for their donation of three portable toddler seats to the benefit
of
the community.