Calif. Firefighters Reunite with Premature Baby Girl They Saved After 'Scary' Highway Birth

Mar. 15, 2025

Jazmin Quijano was just 22 weeks pregnant when she suddenly went into labor in June, according toNBC affiliate KCRAandCBS affiliate KOVR.

“It was scary,” Quijano told the paper. “What happens if you don’t survive? Because she wasn’t crying. She wasn’t even moving at all.”

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“We had to do CPR all the way to the hospital,” Switkowski recalled, “We did everything that we could."

On Wednesday, Dec. 18, Daleyza and the firefighters who helped save her life were reunited for the first time at Fire Station 6 in Oak Park.

“Those are her first family,” Quijano explained. “They’re going to always be family no matter what. … She’s always going to hear about them when she’s older and she has her own kids. We’re always going to talk about this.”

Switkowski said the reunion was “super special” for everyone, according to KOVR.

“We had no idea that she was going to be here," Switkowski told the station. “It was so good to hold her and see that she’s doing so well.”

“The odds of being able to survive what she did and do as well as she did is zero,” McElroy toldThe Sacramento Bee. “So this is truly an amazing, amazing thing.”

source: people.com