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AUDRAIN COUNTY — A dispatcher was praised in a post on the Audrain County E-911 Joint Communications Facebook page for successfully assisting a woman give a live childbirth on Highway 54.

The post said Lexi Friedli answered the call of a man who was driving into Vandalia on Highway 54 with a woman in active labor about to deliver a baby in the backseat of his truck. Friedli instructed the driver to pull over at the Highway 54 Package Store. She then continued relaying the…