Cheektowaga Police officers rescue dog clinging to tree in creek
Posted at 11:16 AM, Dec 31, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-31 18:26:23-05
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WKBW) â Cheektowaga Police officers waded into a freezing creek to rescue a dog that was clinging to a tree in the middle of the water.
Police were called to an area off Genesee Street around 3:20 Wednesday afternoon, after someone spotted a dog in a creek. Just before that, the dog s owners were trying to get the dog into the vet s office, when it got loose.
An employee with the vet s office told police the dog was last seen in the creek, so they started checking the area around it. Patrolman James Rutkowski was checking an area behind Rein Road when he heard the dog, then spotted the dog clinging to the tree in the creek.
My wife s in labor. I think she s actually going to have. just deliver. right now.
Calling 911 from an empty parking lot near Buffalo Niagara International Airport, he could tell that his wife, Cassandra, wasn t going to make it to the hospital.
The Cheektowaga public safety dispatcher sounded steady and reassuring.
Dispatcher Jennifer Mazgajewski would help the couple make it through the next eight harrowing minutes - an exchange captured on an audio recording of the 911 call and shared Wednesday by the Cheektowaga Police Department.
Baby Alexandra was delivered by her father with help of a Cheektowaga dispatcher. Handout Photo
It was 1:51 p.m. last Friday, a day past Cassandra s due date, when she started having contractions. The contractions came about 10 minutes apart when she called her doctor, and Steven and Cassandra, who asked that their last names not be publicized, started heading from their home in Clarence to Sisters Hospital in Buffalo.Â
Dispatcher walks father through delivering a baby in a car
âI think she is going to start to deliver, right now,â said Steven.
and last updated 2020-12-23 23:26:36-05
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WKBW) â Driving by the Buffalo Niagara International Airport last Friday, and you d never know what was happening. In one of those passing cars were Casandra and Steven. Cassandra made her husband pull their Toyota Corolla into a parking lot.
âWe knew it was happening,â said Cassandra.
They weren t going to make it to the hospital. Steven called 9-1-1. On the line was Jennifer Mazgajewski, a dispatcher with the Cheektowaga Police Department. Sheâs been taking calls for 10 years, but not quite like this one.
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