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KINGMAN, AZ - One Arizona boy will have an amazing story to tell when he's older about birthday.

Just after 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, a DPS Air Rescue Helicopter stationed out of Kingman, responded to a medical emergency involving a woman in active labor. The patient, a 33 year-old resident of Supai, was being treated at a local clinic in the Supai Village which is located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

The crew, consisting of a DPS Officer-Pilot and two Officer-Paramedics, prepared mom for flight and got on their way to Kingman Regional Medical Center about 130 miles away. While in-flight, the crew realized their was no way they were going to make it to the hospital. At 8:25 a.m., the DPS crew delivered the healthy baby boy in the back of the helicopter while still in flight.

There were no complications. The Air Rescue Helicopter landed safely five minutes later at KRMC. The mother and baby boy are resting comfortably at the hospital.