8-year-old boy honored for saving classmate at school

SEE ON FIVE. ARE YOU READY TO HEAR OUR REAL LIFE HERO IS WHEN I SAY HIS NAME. I YOU TO CLAP LOUDER THAN YOU’VE EVER CLAPPING FOR. COME ON UP, MR. GARRETT. THAT’S THE EIGHT YEAR OLD WHO JUMPED INTO ACTION WHEN A FELLOW CLASSMATE WAS CHOKING. IT WAS CHICKEN NUGGET DAY. HERE IN THE CAFETERIA, WHICH THE KIDS ABSOLUTELY LOVE. BUT ON THIS PARTICULAR DAY, DURING THE THIRD GRADE LUNCH, THERE WAS A STUDENT WHO WAS EATING, TOOK A BITE AND BEGAN CHOKING AND COULDN’T BREATHE. AND SO IMMEDIATELY THE BOYS AROUND HIM STOOD UP AND YELLED FOR HELP FOR ME. WHO WAS THE ADULT IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME? AND I WAS ACROSS THE CAFETERIA. SO AS SOON AS I HEARD THEM YELL, I RAN OVER. HOWEVER, THERE WAS A STUDENT WHO WENT, WAY ABOVE AND BEYOND, JUST CALLING FOR HELP, AND HE IMMEDIATELY SPRUNG INTO ACTION. BUT LITTLE DID ANYONE KNOW GARRETT BROWN SOME TRAINING ON THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER. HE MOVED ON IT, DISLODGING THE FOOD FROM CACHED IN YORKE’S THROAT A MOMENT NEITHER CASHED IN NOR HIS PARENTS WILL EVER FORGET IT. IT WAS EXTREMELY SCARY TO KNOW THAT IN A MATTER OF SECONDS MY CHILD COULD HAVE CHOKED TO DEATH ON FOOD. YOU KNOW, AT SCHOOL, WHEN YOU’RE NOT AROUND. THERE’S NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO. TO BE GRATEFUL FOR SAVING HIM. THAT SENTIMENT THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY PROMPTING, THIS ASSEMBLY AND RECOGNITION FOR APPLYING LIFE SAVING KNOWLEDGE. NO ONE HERE KNEW HE HAD CASHED IN, THANKING HIM PUBLICLY. THANK YOU. AND IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING HOW HE KNEW WHAT TO DO, HIS DAD, HIS OWN HERO WHO SAVED HIM, ALSO TAUGHT HIM. MY HE TAUGHT ME. WHENEVER I WAS CHOKING. AND SO HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO DO IN CASE ANYBODY ELSE WAS DOING IT. THE OTHE

An 8-year-old boy was honored for saving his classmate at school.Garrett Brown is a student in Norman, Oklahoma. He jumped into action when a fellow classmate was choking and performed the Heimlich maneuver. Little did anyone know, Brown had some training on the Heimlich maneuver and moved on it. He dislodged the food from Cashton York’s throat, which was a moment neither York nor his parents will ever forget.”Extremely scary to know in a matter of seconds my child could have choked to death on food, at school when you’re not around,” York’s mother said. “There are not enough words to be grateful for saving him.”The sentiment was shared across the school and community, prompting the assembly and recognition for applying life-saving knowledge no one knew he had. York thanked him publicly.In case you are wondering how he knew what to do, his dad and his own hero who saved him also taught him.”My dad taught me. I was choking and he saved me and taught me to save someone else,” Brown said.

NORMAN, Okla. —

An 8-year-old boy was honored for saving his classmate at school.

Garrett Brown is a student in Norman, Oklahoma. He jumped into action when a fellow classmate was choking and performed the Heimlich maneuver.

Little did anyone know, Brown had some training on the Heimlich maneuver and moved on it. He dislodged the food from Cashton York’s throat, which was a moment neither York nor his parents will ever forget.

“Extremely scary to know in a matter of seconds my child could have choked to death on food, at school when you’re not around,” York’s mother said. “There are not enough words to be grateful for saving him.”

The sentiment was shared across the school and community, prompting the assembly and recognition for applying life-saving knowledge no one knew he had. York thanked him publicly.

In case you are wondering how he knew what to do, his dad and his own hero who saved him also taught him.

“My dad taught me. I was choking and he saved me and taught me to save someone else,” Brown said.

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