WASHINGTON COUNTY, MN — A Washington County 911 telecommunicator who answered as a Wisconsin mother was giving birth in her car in Woodbury last week is being lauded by the county’s sheriff.
Vicki Herrmann picked up the phone when Baily Bieniek-Phelps and her husband, Tim, called 911 around 11 p.m. March 20 from the Interstate 94 off-ramp for Radio Drive and Inwood Avenue.
“Even though the baby was already ‘out,’ Vicki was ready to help,” the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post, crediting Herrmann for calmly walking Tim through “how to tie off the umbilical cord using a shoelace… READ MORE
