When it became evident Bryson was coming last year, Kortney thought she had plenty of time to wait for her husband to get home from work and drive her to the hospital. He made it home, but they didn't make it far from their house in rural Jerome County before having to pull over.
“He had asked me before we left the house, ‘do we need to call an ambulance?’” Kortney explained. “I was like ‘no, we're fine, let's just get to the car, we're good.’”
Halfway to the interstate, Kortney realized she felt just like she did in the moments before her daughter Kylie was born two years earlier. She told her husband to call 911.
Crystal Estrada, the Southern Idaho Regional Communications Center dispatcher who took the call, was excited to meet the baby one year later.
“Thankfully we have a program that guides us through everything so it’s easier to walk them through it,” Estrada said of the birth, noting it was the first time she talked a father through the process over the phone.
“It’s so good to see (Bryson) right now. I was honored when they offered to do it,” she said of the birthday party invitation.
Lieutenant Taylor Hunsaker and firefighter Dylon Baker from Rock Creek Fire District were the first to reach the roadside delivery in progress — a first for both.
Bryson wasn't quite fully out, but close. Hunsaker welcomed the baby into the world and was so focused on his task that he forgot to tell Kortney if it was a boy or a girl until she asked. A crew from Magic Valley Paramedics arrived just a few minutes later.
