Choking Victim Saved

Seminole County (Fla.) dispatcher Shelly Brubaker has been honored by the County Commission for her handling of a 911 call from a man who was choking. She gave the man instruction for the Heimlich maneuver–on himself–using a chair, and the man recovered. “I knew he was choking. I knew what we had to do. He was by himself. Really, he’s the hero. He was able to do it,” Brubaker told a reporter. She said she has not met the man, but would love to give him a hug.