Storm Jonas: Pregnant teenager dies after shovelling snow outside her home following blizzard

A teenage mum-to-be has died after shoveling snow outside her home during the devastating Storm Jonas. Briahna Gerloff, 18, was eight months pregnant with a baby girl, who also died.

The teenager's heartbroken family said she insisted on clearing the record-breasking snow dump from outside her home in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.


Briahna came back inside the house at around 9am, where her brother found her unresponsive in the kitchen a short time later, NBC Philadelphia reported.

 Snowed in: The blizzard trapped many people in their homesParamedics were unable to revive her and she died at the scene.

Her unborn daughter, who she had named Kayliana and was due to give birth to via Caesarean section on February 4, also died.


Briahna's cause of death has not been determined, but relatives said the teenager suffered from a rare heart condition, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which is rarely fatal.


Family and friends have set up a GoFundMe page to help raise funds to cover funeral costs.