- A New Jersey teacher saved a student choking on a bottle cap by performing a Heimlich Maneuver.
- Classroom surveillance footage shows the choking student running to his teacher for help.
- The teacher had recently had a refresher course on the Heimlich Maneuver.
A video shows a teacher saving a 9-year-old student choking on a bottle cap by performing a Heimlich maneuver.
A third-grade student in East Orange, New Jersey, can be seen drinking from a plastic water bottle when the cap gets lodged in his throat.
A classroom surveillance video shows the panicked student running to his teacher while choking and pointing to his throat.
The quick-thinking teacher steps in and performs a Heimlich maneuver, which causes the bottle cap to fly out of his mouth.
"In the moment, I was just like okay, he needs my help," the teacher Janiece Jenkins told Inside Edition.
"You get this training, you know that it's important to have the training, but you never really think that you're going to have to use the training."
Jenkins had never performed the maneuver before but had recently had a refresher course on it, the outlet said.
The boy, Robert Stonaker, appeared on "Fox & Friends" with his father, also called Robert. He said he was scared when choking on the bottle and said he wanted Jenkins to know: "I love you."
His father praised the quick-thinking teacher for saving his son's life. "Thank you for being there, for being heroic," he said.
Nearly 5,000 people die annually in the United States due to choking.
