Sheriff Matt Hassel conducted an employee recognition during the commissioner’s meeting Monday morning.
Hassle read the events as they unfolded, “On February 6th, 2019 at 11:13 A.M. Marshall County Central Dispatch received a call from a male subject in the 19,000 block of 16th Road. He advised his girlfriend was pregnant and had gone into labor. Stg. Brent Reinhold received the call, dispatched police and EMS and began following our medical questionnaire and procedures. The father was unsure if her water had broken. He advised that her contractions were about 45 seconds apart. Knowing that birth was eminent Sgt. Reinhold instructed the father to move the mother to the floor or a bed and remove her clothing. Due to the noises we could hear the mother making we knew she was beginning to push. Stg. Reinhold began to give the father instructions on how to deliver the baby. The father advised that the feet were showing first and before further instructions the mother delivered the baby and we heard the first cries of life at 11:23 A.M. A few minutes later Culver EMS arrived on the scene and took over the patient care.”
Sheriff Hassle told the commissioners there is a little tradition at the Sheriff’s Department for this particular occasion. He then asked Matt Pitney, Director of Communications at the Sheriff’s Department to explain.
Pitney said, “In our line of work we deal with a lot of bad things and most of the time people are not having their best time when they call us.” He told the commissioner when the opportunity to have something so wonderful as a new life coming into this world, which doesn’t happen very often for the dispatcher they want to recognize it and celebrate it.
Stg. Brent Reinhold was presented with a pink stork pin as a remembrance of the event. Pitney said in his 10 years on the job, this was only the third time he has presented a stork pin because typically EMS arrives on scene and delivers or is able to transport the mother to the hospital for delivery.
He told the commissioner the baby was in stable condition when it arrived in the hospital.
