A New Jersey cop who delivered a baby boy during last week’s snowstorm is being hailed as a hero, and the grateful parents named the child partly after him.
Bound Brook Police Department Acting Sergeant Thomas Burgin, 42, responded to a 911 call of a woman going into labor at her home Jan. 29, as a massive nor’easter bore down on the Northeast.
He traveled icy roads and arrived at the family home during “the height of the storm,” he said. The snow had been coming down all night, and conditions were treacherous, the cop noted.
Burgin and fellow cop Brian Wertheim found the expectant mother Sara Alves lying on her side on a second-floor landing.
She and her husband Antonio Castillo Alves, who had just returned from working an overnight shift, were getting ready to go to the hospital when the contractions started.
Sgt. Thomas Burgin ended up delivering baby Paulo Thomas Alves during last weekend’s snowstorm. ABC7Because they were about eight minutes apart, the Alves’ figured they could take their time to get ready, according to a report. But as they were dressing their sleepy toddler son, the contractions became so intense that Alves fell to the ground, according to Patch.
She told the cops that her water had broken and she could feel the baby emerging. When Burgin looked down, he could see the baby’s head cresting.
Baby Paulo Thomas Alves’s middle name honor’s the officer who helped bring him into the world. Family photoBut there was no time. After four pushes, Paulo Thomas Castillo Alves was born. His middle name honors the man who helped deliver him, according to reports. The parents posted a photo of their newborn, with the message: “Thank you very much, Sergeant Thomas,” in Portuguese.
“This is definitely an experience I am not going to forget,” Burgin told The Post Saturday.
The mother and the 8.5-pound baby were later transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. In another photo, the couple’s three-year-old, Joao Lucca, smiles as he holds his little brother.
Sgt. Thomas Burgin arrived at the Alves’ home during “the height of the storm.” ABC7“God bless him a lot, because you never know if he didn’t show up what would’ve happened,” Sara Alves told Patch.
For Burgin it was just part of his job, he said. “But it did feel petty cool,” he said.






