LAMOURE, N.D. — A rural North Dakota mother is grateful to the emergency medical service providers with Community Volunteer EMS of LaMoure for helping deliver her newborn daughter safely at her home.

Brandi Dohrich said she went into labor on Oct. 28, about two weeks earlier than expected.

“I woke up at 7:30 that morning, and she was born at like 9:45 (a.m.), so there was not a lot of time in between and there was not a lot of warning either,” Dohrich said.

Dohrich’s husband, Jeremy, had left the house shortly before she went into labor.

“By the time my husband got home, my water broke in the garage, and then she was born about 20 minutes later,” she said.

Dohrich said her mother arrived a few minutes later, and the Community Volunteer EMS of LaMoure was paged to her home, about 5 mil

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