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An elementary school kid died of choking. Sad news from here

Valentina @valherma00 (3831) • Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska) 9 Jun

Not the topic that i enjoy to talk about. They just mentioned it was a school in a nearby city and that the child, age 9 chocked while eating a doughnut. A male pronoun was used so, it seems it was a boy. According to witnesses,...

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Nurse who saved the life of a patient is rewarded by her peers

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 8 May

Alicia McCullough who is a registered nurse at St. Joesph's Candler Hospital in Savannah Georgia was on her lunch break when she saw a patient named Joanne Smith who is a patient at the same hospital began to choke on her...

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Police officers save a choking victim at a living facility

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 3 Apr

Two Park Ridge Police Officers responded to an emergency call on Saturday evening March 28 in the Fox Trail Memory Care Living Facility when a woman passed out when she choked and passed out inside of the facility. Police...

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Teacher in Long Island New York saves a choking boy in her school

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 17 Jan

Long Island second-grade classroom teacher Alessia Hoffman credited her first aid training at Charles Reinhard Early Childhood Center in Bellmore New York to use the Heimlich maneuver of a seven year old student named Anderson...

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Police officer awarded for saving the life of a choking victim in Ohio

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 11 Dec

Miami Township Ohio Police Officer Foley responded to an emergency call on November 19 when a 79 year old man was choking on a meal inside of a restaurant. Officer Foley used a LifeVac device from his cruiser to remove the object...

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Police officer honored for saving the life a choking victim

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 8 Dec

The City Council of the Springboro honored Springboro Police Officer Randy Peagler with the Life Saving Award on Thursday. Officer Peagler used the Heimlich Maneuver on a man who was choking at a community event in September that...

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Police officer in Michigan saves the life of a five month old boy who was choking

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 25 Nov

Bayley Simon who is the mother of an infant son named Jameson who had trouble breathing inside of a Wal Mart in Sterling Heights Michigan on Saturday November 1 when Jameson choked on milk. Sterling Heights Police Officer Edwar...

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Police officer in Chicago reunites with a woman that he saved from choking

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 1 Nov

Hammond Indiana resident Laura Ann Munchenburg was eating bagels when she went to pick up her husband in Ford Heights Illinois when began to choke when a part of the bagel went into her nose when she sneezed. Cook County Police...

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Elementary School Principal saves a child from choking on a water bottle cap

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 29 Oct

Piper Irwin who is an eight year old girl who attends Miami Elementary School in Clinton Township went to take a sip from her water bottle earlier this month when she began to choke when the small cap ended winding up in the back...

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Correctional officer awarded for saving the life of a choking child

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 29 Oct

Correctional officers seldom get rewards for saving lives of strangers. In the case of Lancaster County Prison correction Officer Jaiden Droege answered a call from a concerned adult who was with a child whose gender was not...

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Police officers save an infant boy from choking

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 24 Oct

Two New York Police Department (NYPD) Officers answered an emergency call from the mother of an 10 month old boy named Makai who had trouble breathing in the home of his mother on Friday afternoon October 10. Two NYPD officers...

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Choking in public

clrumfelt @clrumfelt (5597) • Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee 24 Jun

They say a lot of people die alone in restrooms at restaurants because they start to choke on their food and start coughing and run into the restroom. That makes a good case for following someone into a restroom if you see them...

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That Seems Worse...

Jim Bauer @porwest (112802) • United States 24 Jun

Several years ago, someone I went to high school with, who I was friends with on Facebook had passed away, and considering his lifestyle (he was gay), I always assumed he probably committed suicide. He'd had a string of bad...

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LifeVac airway clearance devices could save lives

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381915) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Apr 25

There was an article on the news last night about anti-choking devices being installed in community venues in one of Perth’s northern suburbs. A young father was unable to save his 22-month-old son from choking on a grape and...

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College football fan saves a sports personality from choking on his food

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 18 Sep 24

I personally do not know who Entertainment Sports Programming Network (ESPN) sports journalist Peter Burns is from the other employees at ESPN who are on the airwaves a lot. A University of Missouri college football fan named...

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Michigan males save a raccoon from choking on cheese

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 1 Jul 24

Bill Boski, Tyler Whalen and John Ptaszenski were in the backyard of Bill on Friday evening June 21 having a bonfire when they become friends with a raccoon who began to choke after the raccoon ate some cheese that was given to...

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Police officer in Texas saves the life of a female driver who was choking

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 5 Feb 24

Mansfield Texas Police Department Officer Chad Stevens was in the right place at the right time on Thursday when he came to the assistance of a female driver named Samantha who did give out her last name was behind the wheel when...

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Chick-fil-A worker saves the life of a child who was choking in a drive thru

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 21 Sep 23

Liliana Leahy is a mom who is grateful that a Chick-fil-A employee named Mia was at the right place at the right time on Monday at a drive thru when her daughter started to choke when she had a coin stuck in her throat. Mia who...

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High school senior saves the life of a child at a softball game in Michigan

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 11 May 23

Giselle Torres who is a senior at Holland High School in Holland Michigan was at the right place at the right time when she was with her softball team's Custom Car & Bike Show over the weekend when she saw a young boy having...

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Caretaker saves the life of a 5th grade student who was choking eating on a meal

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 23 Apr 23

Thanks to the actions of La Mesa Elementary School which is located in Albuquerque New Mexico, a fifth grade student named Christian Ortiz Gonzales who at his lunch break on Thursday April 20, Christian was saved from death when...

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