ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — DeKalb County firefighters delivered a healthy baby in a field early Wednesday morning while responding to overnight storm damage. Crews were clearing downed trees and power lines when a couple flagged them down and told them a baby was on the way. Firefighters delivered the baby in a field. Both mother and baby were taken to a nearby hospital. Officials said both are doing well. DeKalb Fire Rescue said a homeowner near Northern Avenue was trapped inside their home, surrounded by fallen trees. The homeowner was not injured. In Stone Mountain, a tree crushed a woman’s car. Angela Anderson said the damage left her without transportation. “It’s a huge inconvenience because my car is totaled, it’s crushed. The windshield and everything, I can’t even see it,” Anderson said. In Clarkston, several roads were blocked by fallen trees. Clarkston Fire Rescue said they dispatch crews to 30 locations overnight for reported tree damage. At the height of the outage, just over 500 customers in the Clarkston area were without power. Across North Georgia, about 60,000 customers lost power. Hasiv Novljakovic, a Clarkston resident, said he had been without power since 7 p.m. Tuesday and expressed concern about rising temperatures. “I mean, the heat, we can’t cook any food. I mean, there’s nothing we can do right now,” Novljakovic said. DeKalb Fire said no injuries were reported from the storm damage. Tuesday night’s storms wreaked havoc across metro Atlanta…
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