A third-grade teacher sprang into action when a 9-year-old student ran to her desk with a bottle cap stuck in his throat. Calmly and swiftly, she performed the Heimlich maneuver, dislodging the cap and saving the child’s life.
“We were starting our math class. Robert was a little thirsty from returning from gym class,” Janiece Jenkins, who has taught at New Jersey’s East Orange Community Charter School for five years, told The Epoch Times. “He tried to screw up the bottle cap and couldn’t do it, so he tried to use his teeth. He squeezed the bottle, so all the water pushed the cap down his throat.”
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