YEREVAN. - Armenia’s Emergency Situations Minister Armen Yeritsyan on Wednesday will present awards to the eight firefighter-rescuers who on February 21 had come to the aid of a pregnant woman and transported her through snow, and on a sled, to the ambulance, Emergency Situations Ministry informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.       

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, a distress call was received, at 2:56 p.m. on February 21, informing that a tractor was stuck in snow, in Aragatsotn Region, and it had three passengers one of which was in serious health condition. As the Emergency Service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am, this information was reported to the regional Emergency Service, and one unit was dispatched to the scene at 3:11 p.m. As it came out, one of the passengers—Gyulnara Faroyan, 20—was pregnant and needed to be taken to a maternity hospital. She was taken to Aparan city Medical Center.