Woman Gives Birth to Baby in Miami Airport: 'We Got a Boy!'

A female passenger in Miami went into labor and gave birth at an airport in a moment that was captured on video. 

In an email to PEOPLE on Thursday, Nov. 14,  Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) said its units responded to a medical call at Miami International Airport on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at about 5:04 p.m. local time.

“Miami-Dade Aviation personnel, Miami-Dade Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection assisted with helping the patient prior to our arrival,” said MDFR. “MDFR’s Rescue 40 transported one adult patient and a pediatric patient to a local area hospital.”

According to local Fox affiliate WSVN, the woman’s water broke and she began giving birth in the vicinity of Checkpoint 1 in the pre-security area.

Cellphone video shared by NBC affiliate WTVJ shows first responders tending to the woman on the airport’s floor as she gave birth to her child. 

WSVN shared audio from the emergency dispatch during the unexpected incident. 

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“Responding to Door 3, pregnant female. Possible miscarriage outside of Door 3 departures,” a 911 dispatcher could be heard saying. “Door 3 departures, Rescue 40.”

Later, an official says to the 911 operator in the audio: “It’s alive! It’s alive?...OK. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.”

An officer nearby says, according to the audio, “We got a boy!” 

The woman and her baby were not publicly identified by MDFR in its email to PEOPLE.

WSVN reported an airport employee saying that the female passenger was between flights at the time when the medical emergency happened.

A similar incident happened at the same airport two years ago, the Miami Herald reported, when a woman gave birth to her daughter inside a restroom. Fittingly, the baby was named Mia, after the airport.