He was born on a bitterly cold Tuesday morning, in the front seat of a car on a snowy Mountain road.

Emergency crews were called at 4:30 a.m. to Upper Gage and Quail Drive, north of Stone Church Road, for a report that a woman was in labour.

"She was in full labour," says Sergeant Chris Zafirides, "the baby was born right there in the car."

Zafirides, a 24-year veteran, was one of the first on scene followed by paramedics and fire crews.

He'd done this once before, more than a dozen years ago. It was a first for his partner, Constable John Michael Pettit, who's been with the service about six months.

Zafirides comforted the teen girl, who was breathing hard and looking scared.

She was with her own mother. They were headed to the hospital when it became apparent that the child would not wait.

"It was quite an experience," Zafirides said, also a father of two. "The baby had good colour."

As paramedics cut the umbilical cord, the cop wrapped the boy in a blanket and continued to tell the mother that everything was OK.

The pair were loaded into an ambulance and taken to hospital.

Zafirides doesn't know what the woman named the boy, but last heard they were both doing well.