SHIRLEY, Long Island (PIX11) -- Three officers from the Suffolk County Police Department helped deliver a baby in Shirley Monday evening.
The officers were responding to a 911 call of a woman in active labor inside a car on Sunrise Highway.
Officers Lacey, Nappi, and Verity located the 37-year-old woman from Mastic Beach inside a Honda Accord parked on the shoulder of the highway at around 6:11 p.m.
The three helped deliver the baby and wrapped her in a blanket before the Shirley Community Ambulance arrived.
Police Officers Joseph Lacey, Jonathan Verity and Brendan Nappi, (L-R) who helped deliver a baby this afternoon. (Courtesy of the Suffolk County Police Department)The mother and the baby were transported to the Stony Brook University Hospital.
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