ELLIJAY, Ga. — Sometimes things happen quicker than you expect and that's exactly what happened to one north Georgia couple.
The Ellijay Fire Department says they had to help deliver a baby after a couple couldn't quite make it to the hospital.
A woman's water broke on Tuesday, and she and her husband attempted to drive to North Georgia Medical Center, but it was closed because it is being replaced by an emergency department. The woman told her husband that she wasn't going to make it to another hospital, so the couple drove to the Ellijay fire house on North Main Street.
Firefighter Gene Hightower told Channel 2 Action News that by the time the couple arrived to the station, it took just 45 minutes for the baby at make her grand arrival.
Hightower, along with Chief Sam West, EPD Chief Edward Lacey, firefighter John Halligan and EPD Officer Robin Hillhouse, delivered the baby girl in the parking lot of the station.
Mother and baby are doing fine.
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