The Oak Ridge Fire Department will unveil a new Safe Haven Baby Box on Wednesday, June 12. It will be a place where mothers can safely and anonymously drop off their newborn babies during a crisis, a media advisory said.
The baby box has been installed in honor of Baby Wyatt, a newborn whose body was found wrapped in an oversized T-shirt along the banks of Melton Hill Lake on March 26, 2020, the advisory said. His identity remains unknown.
The Oak Ridge baby box is a temperature-controlled bin installed on the outside wall of Oak Ridge’s Central Fire Station on Tuskegee Drive, the media advisory said.
“It will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to any mother who needs help in a time of crisis,” the advisory said.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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