Hornerstown man an unexpected hero

JOHNSTOWN Rick Jefferson was sound asleep when fate awakened him Dec. 13.

At 7 a.m., the contractor and remodeler was awakened by a stranger knocking on his rear door.

Upon answering the door, he found a young woman asking for help.

I think I am going into labor, Jefferson quoted the mother-to-be as saying.

The woman did not have a telephone or a car so she started walking down the alley until she found someone with a vehicle to take her to the hospital, Jefferson said.

I asked her how far along she was, and she said eight months, Jefferson said.

Thinking that the woman was probably in false labor, he ran upstairs to change out of his night clothes before driving her to the hospital.

So Im upstairs changing clothes and I heard her scream.

I ran downstairs and she was lying on my kitchen floor.

She screamed again and said that her water just broke, he said.

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Hornerstown man an unexpected hero