{"id":13600,"date":"2016-01-11T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=13600"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:11:27","slug":"school-security-officer-saves-choking-person-in-school-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=13600","title":{"rendered":"School Security Officer Saves Choking Person in School\u2026 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 was a busy year for Lodi Public Schools Security Officer Jim Byrnes.<\/p>\n

Byrnes used the Heimlich maneuver to save a choking student on Dec. 23, the second time he\u2019s saved a choking person in the school where he works in less than eight months.<\/p>\n

Although Byrnes says he doesn\u2019t consider himself a hero, he\u2019s the perfect candidate for Campus Safety\u2019s new Heroes program<\/a>, which honors the people who work to make campuses safer every day. You can submit your Hero nomination by emailing Heroes@CampusSafetyMagazine.com.<\/p>\n

In 25 years as a police officer Byrnes never once saved a choking person, but when he retired as a lieutenant in 2013 and began working at New Jersey\u2019s Washington Elementary School that changed fast.<\/p>\n

On April 22, 2015 Byrnes, 46, was in the teacher\u2019s lounge when a substitute teacher in her 70s began choking on a sandwich. Byrnes, who had also worked as a CPR instructor during his time with the police, sprang into action.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got behind her, I picked her up out of her chair,\u201d Byrnes later told northjersey.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After several Heimlich thrusts Byrnes said the teacher was able to spit out her food and breathe again. The teacher was checked by a nurse and eventually finished her sandwich.<\/p>\n

Read the full report HERE\u203a\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Zach Winn 2015 was a busy year for Lodi Public Schools Security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13602,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions\/13602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}