Florida Deputies Help Deliver Baby at State Fair

Two Hillsborough County, Florida Sheriff's deputies helped deliver a baby at the Florida State Fair on Friday.

Deputies Roberto and Henry Echenique jumped into action after they heard a woman asking for help as her water broke at about 4 p.m. while at the fairgrounds in Tampa, according to WFTS-TV.

"We tried to keep her calm," Echenique told the news station. "She kept saying, 'it’s coming, it’s coming' at that point her water broke in the chair she was sitting down in She still had her pants on we seen a bulk in her pants we knew that was the baby."

The deputies found a soft piece of ground and layed the mother down as other deputies and vendors held up a tarp to give her privacy from the public. With the assitance of the woman's husband, she delivered in the middle of hundreds of people behind a wine tent.

In total, 10 deputies helped with the delivery.

Ramirez, who has three young children of his own, said that seeing a baby born at the fair was a new experience for him.

"My wife is going to kill me for this. I’ve never never been in the delivery room myself. I’ve chose not to. I’ve actually told my wife have your mom go in there. When she finds out that I actually helped deliver a young woman’s baby she is going to be very upset with me," Ramirez he said with a laugh.

The mother was transported to St. Joseph's Women's Hospital and she and the baby are in stable condition.