A Sammamish newborn was in a hurry to come into the world Wednesday morning, only a few minutes after her father, eye’s big and anxious, pounded for help on an Eastside Fire & Rescue station door yelling, “My wife is pregnant,” Lt. Ryan Anderson recalled the next day.

Anderson was one of the three-member crew inside when the Kober family arrived. They went right to work when they saw pregnant Jessica Kober outside by her car, Anderson said.

There was barely time enough to bring a gurney to her and roll her inside Station 83, located off of Issaquah-Pine Lake Road Southeast, before baby Melody arrived.

“It’s a huge adrenaline rush. … We’re running back and forth — stuff’s flying all over,” Anderson said. “We don’t deliver a lot of babies,” especially in the middle of the station, between a fire engine and an ambulance.

Eastside firefighters train for situations like this, and were prepared to help the Kober family, but “it’s a lot different when it’s a real live person, instead of a manikin,” Anderson said.

And usually, the emergency doesn’t come to their front door. Usually, they have some time to prepare for a situation on the drive over.

The crew had just been called to respond to an emergency medical situation up the road, which had been the Kobers, when Jessica’s husband, Ryan, knocked on the station’s door.

It was an unbelievable experience, Anderson said.

“We just brought a life into this world,” he said. “Of course, mom did it all. We were just kind of there to catch the baby. …

“We love our jobs. Sometimes we go to some really bad calls, things that aren’t fun to see, but it’s these things we live for.”