Rustburg, VA - Babies are born every day in Campbell County: just not always in the parking lot of the Rustburg Rescue Squad.

Around 2:45 a.m. Monday, a Rustburg woman's family drove her to the station to have an ambulance bring her to the hospital. But the crew was gone on another emergency.

By the time the on-call volunteers arrived at 3:00 a.m., she had started giving birth inside a pick-up truck, a tight squeeze for any mother.

There was no time to get her to the hospital.

Capt.Chris Leebrick, Helped With Delivery - "She said, 'I need to push.' And I was like, 'No you don't. And then she says, 'Yes, I do.' Then here we go."

Larry Ennis, Rustburg Rescue Squad - "And by the time I got the stretcher over there, the baby was almost out."

Bobby Hughes, Drove Daughter-In-Law - "It's a new experience for me. Like I say, I hope it's the last time for that. Go to the hospital, that's where it needs to be. Not in my truck."

The woman gave birth to a seven pound, one ounce girl. The mother and daughter are now at Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg.

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