Republican governor helps rescue competitor choking during lobster-roll contest



Chris Sununu, the Republican governor of New Hampshire, recently helped rescue a man who began choking during a lobster roll-eating contest.

Over the weekend, tens of thousands gathered for the annual Hampton Beach Seafood Festival near Hampton, New Hampshire, a town of some 16,000 residents located along the Atlantic Coast, just north of Massachusetts.

'Joey Chestnut I failed you.'

On Sunday, the festival hosted a lobster roll-eating competition, and Christian Moreno, a resident of Nashua and a newbie to food-eating competitions, decided to participate.

While competitors were scarfing down lobster rolls, Moreno suddenly began signaling that something was wrong. According to video shared by WMUR-TV, he began leaning forward and striking his chest repeatedly.

After several seconds, Gov. Sununu, who appeared to be standing nearby, noticed Moreno's distress and rushed onto the stage to render assistance.

"I started saying, ‘He’s choking, he’s choking,’ and I could tell people weren’t responding," the governor told WMUR-TV. "So I just moved forward and immediately started to kind of give him the Heimlich."

Sununu made at least four thrusts on Moreno's abdomen before an EMT on the scene ultimately dislodged the wayward morsel from his windpipe.

Moreno, apparently a fierce competitor, immediately returned to the competition and, according to Sununu, wolfed down several more lobster rolls before time was called.

"He went right back to the contest, which I couldn’t believe," Sununu said. "He ate another seven lobster rolls after that. Right down the gullet."

Unfortunately, those seven rolls weren't enough, and fellow contestant Chris Thurston of Somersworth walked away with the $600 first-place prize.

Moreno also did not realize the identity of his rescuer until after the incident was over.

"My counter came up to me and, like, made a joke and was like, 'Oh, like, I bet nobody else can say that they’ve gotten the Heimlich from the governor before.' And I looked at him, was just like, that was, that was the governor?" he recalled.

"Lo and behold, the governor was the first one to notice what was actually happening."

Moreno and Sununu reconnected after the event and posed for a couple of pictures together, including one in which they humorously reenacted the choking scene. Moreno shared the image on his Facebook account with the message: "Joey Chestnut I failed you."

In another Facebook post, Moreno credited Sununu and the paramedic with saving his life and warned viewers: "Remember to chew your food everybody."

He also insisted to WMUR-TV that he will compete again next year.

"I will be there for my redemption, 100%."

After four terms as governor though, Sununu, 49, will not compete again for the governor's office, the New York Post reported, announcing in July that he would not seek re-election.

"Could I win again? Of course. But it’s [public] service, and someone else needs to kind of take the mantle," he said in June.

Blaze News reached out to the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the seafood festival, for comment.

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Junior officer hears screaming while off duty and bolts into action, saving baby who was figured for a goner: 'Everybody has their time. It just wasn't his.'



Mohamed Hacham, an officer in training with the Melvindale Police Department in Michigan, was off duty Tuesday evening when he heard someone screaming.

Hacham, who at the time had been relaxing in his East Dearborn home with his police radio nearby, told WJBK-TV, "It was like a disaster going on. The yelling from the corner ... was so loud with the windows closed, and I was like 'this is something big.'"

Having quickly surmised that the yelling corresponded with a dispatch over the radio concerning a baby in trouble, the young officer bolted outside along with his brother. Together, they raced up the block to a group that had gathered around a panicked mother.

Hacham told WDIV-TV that at the center of the fearful group was a baby who had fallen unconscious after choking on food: "His eyes, when I seen them, were rolled back."

The officer immediately seized control of the situation.

"Whole time I’m just telling the little boy, 'Come on, come on, come on, let’s wake up.' ... My whole goal was 'this kid’s not dying in my arms,'" recalled Hacham.

The young officer relied upon his training and performed livesaving measures to get the boy breathing again, which he indicated amounted to flipping the baby over and administering a few blows to his back.

Mo Zughayar, Hachem's neighbor, who saw Hacham resuscitate the child, told WWJ-TV, "I don't know what could've happened. If he didn't know what he was doing or wasn't the one helping, then I don't want to say it. The child probably wouldn't be with us any more."

Hacham, who has only been on the job for a few months, later emphasized he was at the "right place at the right time," and that it "wasn't that kid's time. Everybody has their time. It just wasn't his."

The MPD said in a statement on Facebook, "Great job to one of our newest Officers. Officer Hacham was off duty and heard the call[,] saving a lifeless child in his neighborhood. Well done Officer Hacham, well done. You make all of us very proud to have you on our team."

Lt. Robert Kennaley of the MPD indicated to WXYZ-TV that Hacham "is a very kindhearted individual. He's a go-getter and that's what he does: helps the community."

The 2-year-old's father has expressed gratitude to his neighbor in blue, indicating that the boy is doing well.

Video of the incident was captured on domestic surveillance cameras:

Off-duty Melvindale police officer saves 3-year-old boy who nearly choked to deathyoutu.be

For those outside Hacham's vicinity, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health has recommended following these steps for treating a choking child, which are to be pursued in conjunction with calling emergency services:

  • "Stand behind the child. Wrap your arms around the child's waist";
  • "Make a fist with one hand, thumb side in," then place your fist "just below the chest and slightly above the navel";
  • "Grab your fist with the other hand";
  • "Press into the abdomen with a quick upward push. This helps to make the object or food come out of the child's mouth";
  • "Repeat this inward and upward thrust until the piece of food or object comes out"; and
  • Upon the ejection of the obstruction, "take your child to the doctor. A piece of the object can still be in the lung. Only a doctor can tell you if your child is OK."

The British Red Cross has published a short video demonstrating the techniques for saving a choking baby under the age of one:

Baby First Aid: How to save a choking babyyoutu.be

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Hero high school basketball coach jumps into action and saves choking student's life



A high school basketball coach is being hailed a hero after he bravely saved a student's life, KETV-TV has reported.

What are the details?

Riley Kelly, a freshman at Papillion-La Vista South High School in Papillion, Nebraska, had just taken a bite of his cheeseburger during Tuesday's lunch period when the meat and bun got caught in his throat, blocking his windpipe.

With shaking hands, Riley tried to chug down some milk to force the blockage through, but the milk ominously sat in his throat and he could not swallow it.

“I just didn’t chew it all the way. I’ve been in situations like this before, where I try to wash it down because I have something stuck in there, and nine times of out 10, it works,” Riley told the station. “And this is the one time it didn’t work.”

The teen added, “I was drinking the milk, and I didn’t feel any milk moving I just felt the milk being held there in my throat. And I couldn’t breathe.”

Coach Joel Hueser — who was monitoring the lunch period — quickly jumped out of his seat when he noticed a nearby teen struggling to breathe.

"It was all so sudden," Riley said. "It was like a flash of lightning in my head but at the same time super slow ... All I remember is just, like, the fear. Next thing you know, I was being saved."

Hueser performed the Heimlich maneuver on Riley, and successfully dislodged the chunk of food from the teen's throat.

He told the station that any teacher in his position would have reacted the same way.

“Any teacher or coach would have done the same thing," the heroic coach insisted. "I just happened to be there"

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