Safe Haven ‘Baby Box’ Alarm Sounds at RFD Station #4. It Wasn’t False

(WGTD)—A newborn baby girl was legally abandoned at the Racine Fire Department’s Station #4 near Washington and Lathrop last week.

According to RFD Battalion Chief Bedros Ohanian, a crew was performing routine chores in the station house Thursday at mid-morning when the alarm that’s hooked up to the station’s ‘baby box’ sounded.

Somebody had taken advantage of the climate-controlled and ventilated compartment that’s built into exterior wall of the station house and dropped off a newborn with its umbilical cord still attached, Ohanian confirmed. The infant was immediately transported to the hospital…

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