Brooklyn firefighters raced to an emergency Sunday — and were tickled pink over the outcome.
The Bravest helped a pregnant woman deliver a baby girl in a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment after she went into labor at around 11:45 a.m. and panicked relatives ran down the street to their firehouse pleading for help.
“My daughter was on the couch and said, ‘Mommy, the baby is coming!’ ” recalled Arlene Davis, whose apartment was suddenly transformed into a delivery room. “I yelled for someone to get the firemen.”
Family members took off down Hancock Street toward Engine Co. 215. The firefighters “were outside washing the rig when someone came running up, yelling, ‘A woman is giving birth down the block,’ ” said FDNY Lt. Rich Verbouwens.
The Bravest all got into the truck, which has emergency equipment on it, and raced to the ground-floor apartment, arriving just in the nick of time.
“The head was coming out,” Davis said, “I got so nervous, and when I looked up, there was a fireman.”
Firefighter Ryan Tortoso — whose wife is expecting their first child in November — said he “was the catcher” during the delivery.
“We got in the room, and she was crowning,’’ Tortoso said. “The mother just pushed once, and the baby popped right into my hand.”
The mom, Toni Davis, 36, was taken with her newborn daughter to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, according to relatives.
Arlene Davis said her daughter had gone to the hospital hours earlier, but was sent home after doctors determined she wasn’t yet ready to give birth.
Relatives said firefighters from the same firehouse saved Arlene’s own mom several years ago when she suffered a heart attack in the apartment, performing CPR and taking her to a hospital.
“God bless those firemen; they always come through for us,” Arlene Davis said.