KIMA spoke with the firefighter who found an abandoned baby outside a Yakima fire station for the first time since it happened on Christmas Eve. It's now become a case the Yakima Police Department is trying to solve.
Joanna Albrecht says it was hard to ignore her snooze button on Christmas Eve for an early morning work-out, but that she's very lucky she did.
"[I] put my laptop up, I plugged it in and I heard a baby crying outside of the west wall of the station," she said.
It was a different type of alarm for the Yakima firefighter -- Cries coming from outside a rarely-used door at station 92 on Tieton Drive.
"It was definitely a baby-cry sound, so it was something I couldn't ignore," Albrecht said.
"I just opened the door and she was up against the door in a cardboard box on the other side of this door," she said. The baby was estimated to be just hours old, with one hour already spent in below-freezing weather. Albrecht says she was wrapped in three towels in the box.
"It was kind of a surreal experience," she said. "You don't expect to see that."
She says she brought the baby inside to warm her up before an ambulance took her to the hospital.
"They were saying at the hospital it could've been another 30 minutes and it could've been a different outcome."