Toks Ngau speaks about the moment a tornado struck Otara, damaging the ambulance his partner - who was in labour - had just got into.
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He's a bonny 3.43 kilograms, looks "just like his daddy" and, oh boy, do his parents have a story to tell their wee tornado baby when he's older.
The baby son of Raylene Bishop and Toks Ngau is yet to be named, little surprise given what his parents - especially his mum - went through just hours before he was born.
Raylene Bishop, pictured with her first child, Sonny. The Ōtara mum was in labour with her second child when a shed sent flying by a tornado smashed into the ambulance she was in.
Photos of the damaged ambulance, which was later towed away, showed the rear right windows smashed in by the impact.
He was worried for Bishop and their unborn son but couldn't immediately go outside, as he was looking after the couple's older son and other children also inside the house.
"[I was worried] for the little ones in the house, too. Because it sounded like the house was going to fly itself."
Neither 25-year-old Bishop, who would safely deliver the couple's son at a south Auckland birth care unit about six hours later nor the two ambulance officers were injured and the trio went back into the house to wait for another ambulance to arrive.
The damaged ambulance was later towed away. Photo / Hayden Woodward
His partner was "still in her [labour] pains" and said little - but she did reveal how close she was to the danger, Ngau said.
"She said [the shed] smashed into her side of the ambulance."
A second ambulance arrived five or 10 minutes later and Bishop, accompanied by Ngau's mother Vaine Tapora, was taken first to Middlemore Hospital and later to a birth care unit.
About 3pm, the couple's little boy arrived safely.
Holding her newest grandson in her arms, Tapora shared that he was healthy and handsome.
"He looks just like his daddy … he's looking at me, I'm sure he's telling me, 'Put that phone down and talk to me'."
