Baby born on stuck elevator

It usually takes some living for someone to acquire a nickname, but Blake Thacker, now just hours old, already has one: Otis.

The second son of Katie and Luke Thacker arrived about 5:45 a.m. earlier today inside an elevator stuck just short of the 14th floor at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.

It wasn't the birth experience his parents had in mind in the pre-dawn hours when they left their Graham home in the driving snow, but they're counting their blessings since everything turned out fine.

"I was just happy to hear my son cry," Luke Thacker said about 11:30 a.m. while he, his wife and new baby recuperated. "Everything went smoothly considering the circumstances."

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