A third baby has been left in a Safe Haven Baby Box at Madison’s First Station No. 1.
According to a City of Madison announcement, the child was checked out by fire medics at the station before being transferred to Madison Hospital by HEMSI for further evaluation.
City officials are not releasing when the child was placed in the box, or the child’s gender, in order to preserve the child and the mother’s anonymity.
The Alabama Department of Human Resources has been notified.
A child was left in the box back in January, the first in the state, and just 12 days after the baby box opened at that location.
A second was placed there a month later.
Last June 1, the Alabama Legislature expanded the state’s “Safe Haven” law, allowing the surrender of infants, up to 45 days old, at fire stations that operate around-the-clock with emergency personnel.
The new law authorized Safe Haven Baby Boxes, which are secured portals in the exterior walls of fire stations where infants can be placed and immediately retrieved by emergency workers inside. The box allows children to be surrendered anonymously.