Housewife gave birth in a fire engine

In Malaysia, a 33-year-old housewife gave birth to her second child in a fire-engine while being brought to a hospital yesterday.The three-tonne vehicle was used to get to a village clinic as an ambulance could not go into the area which was flooded since last week. Mdm Norizan gave birth to a baby boy, weighing 2.7kg, about 9am while the vehicle was nearing the hospital. A doctor and two nurses were in the vehicle.

Norizan, who also has a 4-year-old son, said she was glad that the baby was delivered without any complications.She had moved to her mother-in-law's house after her house was submerged in water.The baby was due in a week's time but Norizan said she started to feel pain about 4.30am and asked her husband to send her to the clinic."I was there for over two hours when the pain got worse. Nurses there then decided to call for an ambulance to send me to the clinic."However, the ambulance could not come and they had to call the fire department to send a fire-engine," she said.
Meanwhile, Fire and Rescue Department officer-in-charge Saiful Bahri Mohd Noor said the district firemen were not only deployed to rescue flood victims but also help send pregnant women, like Norizan, to the hospital.He added that since the floods hit the district a week ago, they had sent four pregnant women to hospitals, including the latest case.