A video has emerged on social media showing a ninth-grade student saving a classmate's life.
According to KUTV News, Jackson Johnson was saved from choking by his fellow pupil Hunter Olson.
Surveillance cameras installed at West Jordan Middle School in Utah managed to capture the ordeal, which took place in the cafeteria when the boys were eating lunch.
Take a look at this footage of the incident in the video below:Midway through their meal, Olson noticed that Johnson's face had turned blue and that he was unable to breathe after a piece of chicken became lodged in his throat.
Luckily, Olson had learned the Heimlich maneuver in his eighth-grader teacher Kathy Howa's health class, where students practiced life-saving techniques on Resusci-Annies body dummies.
Thus, he immediately lept to action. Wrapping his arms around Johnson's midriff, he pumped six times and eventually managed to dislodge the choking hazard.
Per KUTV, Olson opened up about the incident in a podcast hosted by Jordan School District Superintendent Anthony Godfrey, stating: "My first instinct was just to come up and try to help as much as I could.
"I had to like, make sure he was actually choking first because we were all at the table, just laughing, just cause we thought he was just choking on something little, like, it went down the wrong tube or something.
"And then, he was just coughing over the garbage can."
Meanwhile, teacher Kathy Howa later told the West Jordan Journal: "You hope that those children are actually listening to you.
"When something like this happens, and you find out that they did—there is no greater reward than somebody that's actually saving somebody else's life."
Howa, who has been teaching for 28 years, also stated that she plans on showing the footage to future students to reinforce the idea that learning these life-saving skills can be valuable.
She added: "There's a lot of work in teaching, especially with what we've been going through, but it’s not about that.
"It's about touching these kids and hoping that you make them great human beings to go out in the community and to just be good people."
