Woman gives birth on sidewalk outside Exposition Park
Fast Break
Andrew J. Campa March 26, 2024
A woman went into labor and gave birth
late
Monday
night
on
a
sidewalk outside Exposition Park, according to
authorities and
The
Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call
in
the 3800 block of South Figueroa Street at 11:33 p.m., according to
spokesman
Nicholas Prange.
A fire engine, two ambulances and paramedics
went to
the scene.
Video shows firefighters and emergency personnel delivering the child and swaddling the newborn in a white towel. According to Prange,
both
mother and child were
taken
to a hospital.
Prange did not have any information on the health of
the pair Tuesday afternoon. The mother has not been publicly identified.
