Newark: A security officer jumped to the roller conveyor belt bell and saved a two-month-old boy who stopped breathing at a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, a new video event was released.
Records, released Thursday by the US Transportation Security Administration, showed TSA Cecilia Morales officers who took action to realize the child on December 9 after his mother picked him up from the car operator and watched him not breathe.
Morales, an EMT who has been a TSA officer for about two months, told the agency that he did the baby’s version of Heimlich’s maneuver, put the baby facing his arm and patted him behind to take him breathing again.
It was the first time he did the technique of the baby, he said.
EMT pediatric arrived a short time later to give an oxygen baby.
“I saw the video afterwards,” said Morales.
“This is the first time I’ve seen myself in action, saving life.
It surprised him to watch.
I felt that my training and experience had just taken over.” “Two months in the job and he was truly a savior,” Thomas Carter, the TSA Federal Security Director for New Jersey said in a statement.
“Quick reaction Morales officers and actions help ensure that this family will have a happy holiday season.
His actions inspired.”