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Colo. medics help deliver baby along icy highway

By Sue Lindsay
Rocky Mountain News

BOULDER, Colo. — It was one of a pregnant woman’s worst nightmares.

Casandra Garcia was in heavy labor and in a car racing to the hospital Tuesday when the car ran out of gas on U.S.

36, sputtering to a stop on the shoulder of the highway in freezing temperatures.

With the help of Westminster paramedics, she gave birth in an ambulance to a perfectly healthy baby boy, Daniel, who made his appearance about a month earlier than expected.

“This is something you only see on TV,” Garcia said. “I never expected it to happen to me.”