{"id":16585,"date":"2020-06-12T03:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=16585"},"modified":"2020-06-12T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:08:12","slug":"watch-brick-police-officer-saves-emt-who-was-choking-at-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/06\/watch-brick-police-officer-saves-emt-who-was-choking-at-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Brick Police Officer Saves EMT Who Was Choking at Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"v-VxXHqSzw-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1000' height='562' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/VxXHqSzw?hd=1&cover=1&loop=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=1&muted=0&controls=1&playsinline=0&useAverageColor=0&preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/video\/assets\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js'><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhenever we\u2019ve needed them, they\u2019ve been there for us,\u201d Brick Police Sgt. Jim Kelly said of the department\u2019s EMTs. \u201cYesterday, we got to be there for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While EMT Katelyn Lammer was stationed to screen people entering town hall on Wednesday, she began to choke on something she was eating, Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe could no<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">t clear her own airway, and that\u2019s when things got scary,\u201d said Kelly. \u201cLuckily, our officers working the front desk sprang into action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this video, Lammer is seen going to the window for help, where Sgt. Josh Jenssen signals to those near the door who can get out to help her. Sgt. Austin Kenny and Sgt. Charlie Kelly were the first out the door with Kelly quickly resorting to a series of abdominal thrusts to clear a complete airway obstruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur EMTs are the best,\u201d said Sgt. Jim Kelly. \u201cThey\u2019ve saved numerous lives, helped countless sick and injured people, and they display a level of professionalism and competence throughout this whole COVID crisis that could serve as an example to healthcare workers everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s important for police officers to be familiar with lifesaving techniques as well: \u201cAnd this is why we train,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/06\/watch-brick-police-officer-saves-emt-who-was-choking-at-town-hall\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhenever we\u2019ve needed them, they\u2019ve been there for us,\u201d Brick Police Sgt. Jim Kelly said of the department\u2019s EMTs. \u201cYesterday, we got to be there for them.\u201d While EMT Katelyn Lammer was stationed to screen people entering town hall on Wednesday, she began to choke on something she was eating, Kelly said. \u201cShe could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,401],"class_list":["post-16585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-police-ems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-12-at-3.06.31-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}