Mother Delivers Daughter Early in Ambulance with Help from EMT Who Trained Baby's Firefighter Father

Mar. 15, 2025

Kayla Alvarez delivered her second daughter Mariah in an unlikely place thanks to the help of an unlikely friend.

Help arrived quickly after from a familiar face: emergency medical technician (EMT) Ruben Torres. The paramedic, who’s also a full-time Worcester firefighter, toldWCVB 5 Bostonthat Caisesy was one of his EMS instructors when he was training to join the Worcester Fire Department.

“I wasn’t expecting to have her in the ambulance. It was super nerve-wracking,” Alvarez told WCVB-5 Boston. “Not having medication, not being in the hospital was super scary for me, but I was able to do it.”

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But Caisey said that he knew Alvarez would be taken care of seeing Torres there. “Seeing him being one of the EMS providers that nigh, I knew that she was in good hands. He had trained me in the fire academy, doing EMS and everything," Caisey said to Spectrum News. “I could say I trust pretty much anyone in the fire department I work with my life if I really needed to. So, you know, in that case in time, if he was there to give birth to her, I knew she was in good hands, you know, it would all work out right.”

And Alvarez felt just as safe. “She told me afterwards, ‘Ruben was a rock star, he knew what he was doing, and it made me feel more comfortable knowing that you guys knew each other,' " Caisey recalled to WCVB-5 Boston.

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This was his partner Kevin Carlucci’s first time assisting with a delivery, according toTelegram & Gazette.

“Almost every one of our calls is on someone’s worst day,” he told WCVB. “Being on a call where we are able to have a miracle, it was such an unbelievable experience and definitely a call I’ll never forget.”

source: people.com