 SAN JOSE -- Texas law-enforcement officials traveled to the South Bay on Wednesday to honor an "extremely heroic" San Jose woman who last year encountered a catastrophic car crash in south Texas and successfully delivered a baby girl from her dying mother. Officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety traveled to the Bay Area to honor Iria Wolnick for her quick actions after her family – on the way to a funeral -- came upon an accident scene on rural Highway 77 in Kennedy County, Texas. In the crash, an 18-year-old male, a 19-year-old female and a 2-year-old had been ejected from their vehicle. “She (the 19-year-old female) kept asking – ‘Ma’am how’s my baby? How’s my baby?” Wolnick said recalling the day. “Making sure the umbilical cord is tied, preventing blood from coming out…keeping the baby warm…All those sort of things.” 
 
 After delivering the miracle baby, Wolnick was able to obtain a heartbeat and heard the baby cry just prior to EMS arriving. “The adrenaline just kicks in and you just spring into action or panic,” she said. Wolnick said she has occasionally texted with the family but has generally opted to give them space.
– Iria Wolnick was on her way to her mother’s funeral when she ended up preventing another. The 36-year-old came upon a fiery crash on a highway in rural Texas after midnight last July 5, and her heroics were honored by Texas law enforcement yesterday morning. The San Jose woman found 19-year-old Niser Saldana-Quilantan in a field. She, along with her 2-year-old and the child's father, had been thrown from an SUV after it hit a tree, rolled over, and caught fire, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Saldana-Quilantan "kept asking 'Ma'am how’s my baby? How’s my baby?" Wolnick recounts, according to KTVU. "I thought she was asking about the toddler, but then I looked down and saw her stomach"—an unborn child's head and arm were protruding from a severe cut in it. A mother of four with only first aid training, Wolnick explains, "You sort of have an idea what needs to happen. Making sure the umbilical cord is tied, preventing blood from coming out… I sprung into action," assisted by a truck driver who used a shoelace on the umbilical cord. Saldana-Quilantan was pronounced dead when she arrived at the hospital, but the 6-pound, 11-ounce baby girl survived. “It has changed my life for good," Wolnick says. "The baby will be in my thoughts forever… You get a new perspective on life." The other passengers survived without serious injury.