(Breitbart)—Montana’s first Safe Haven Baby Box was blessed on Wednesday in Lockwood.
Nick Anderson, the chaplain for the Montana state firefighters, gave the blessing to officially open the baby box, KTVQ reported.
“I’m very proud of the members of the Lockwood Fire District. I mean, they excel at everything that they do. And having this completed and up and running is just a huge sense of accomplishment,” Fire Chief Branden Stevens said.
Baby boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in unsafe conditions, potentially leaving them to die. Baby boxes are temperature-controlled incubators often built into exterior walls of fire stations, police stations, and hospitals that can be accessed from outside and inside. At-risk mothers can safely and legally place their newborns inside. Once the baby is inside the baby box the outside door locks and the mother has time to leave before an alarm goes off alerting first responders or hospital staff to the child’s presence.
The baby is then quickly removed and sent to a hospital for a wellness check. From there, the baby is usually placed into state custody and is often quickly adopted.
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