LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Another Safe Haven Baby Box location in Louisville is now available to the community.
On Tuesday, a baby box at Louisville Fire Engine 10 was blessed and now firefighters are ready to act should the alarm sound.
The baby box can be found on West Ashland Drive in the Beechmont neighborhood. It provides a resource to parents in the neighborhood giving them a safe option to surrender their baby for any reason.
The boxes are temperature-controlled and sound an alarm to alert firefighters when an infant is placed inside. the baby is then checked by medics, taken to the hospital and placed with a family for adoption.
During the dedication ceremony, a Louisville family that adopted a young boy named Samuel. He had been surrounded at a Louisville fire station nearly two years ago in May.
"We were so excited," Brittany Tyler said. "We heard about him in the news and prayed all weekend long we'd get the call to get him as a placement. We were really excited to be chosen to take him."
The Tylers have fostered 17 kids, adopted four of them, and are hoping to sign the papers on a fifth baby soon.
This new baby box marks the 220th in the nation and the 34th in Kentucky.
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