Deputies and paramedics responded to a call in Lancaster late Sunday and found a baby and his mother in the passenger's seat of a car on the side of the road.
The baby -- 5 pounds, 14 ounces -- arrived near Avenue M at East 15th Street as the parents were traveling to the hospital. Javier Garcia and his wife, Gladys, were about half-way to the hospital when he arrived.
"He just came out," said Javier Garcia. "It was too fast."
The baby and mother were transported to the hospital in an ambulance. Fire officials told a photographer at the scene that the mother and baby are "doing fine."
"The baby has a nice cry," said Captain Lester Fuzell, of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. "Dad did fine. These situations do occur and you never really know when Mother Nature decides that new bundle of joy is going to come."
The couple named the boy Noah Robert -- his middle name, a coincidence, is the same as the 911 dispatcher who guided his birth. Noah is the couple's third child.