Quick-thinking grade-4 student saves choking classmate

Last Monday, 9-year-old Emily Ogle noticed that a classmate was choking on a cheese-filled bread stick during their lunch hour at Central Elementary School in Roxana, Illinois.

Emily knew exactly what to do.

Thanks to lessons in the Heimlich maneuver from her father, the Grade-4 student approached Kuper Stevens, the choking student, without hesitation — and saved his life.

"I did the Heimlich maneuver and I guess I got it out, but I didn't think so. So I ran and got the monitor, but I guess I already got it out," she told KSDK.

Emily's mother told KSDK that Emily had been shown how to do the life-saving maneuver when she was 7. Somehow, she remembered how to do it correctly two years later.

Emily's not the only young hero with a great memory.

Last month, a little girl saved her choking mother's life with the Heimlich maneuver, something she learned from the movie Mrs. Doubtfire.

And in July, a 7-year-old boy saved his friend's life with the same maneuver. He learned it from watching Sesame Street.