TSA officer saves infant who stopped breathing at airport

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A information serviceman leapt implicit conveyor loop rollers and saved a 2-month-old lad who stopped breathing astatine a information checkpoint astatine Newark Liberty International Airport successful New Jersey, recently released video shows.

The footage, released Thursday by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, shows TSA serviceman Cecilia Morales springing into enactment to resuscitate the kid Dec. 9 aft his parent picked him up from a car bearer and noticed helium wasn’t breathing.

Morales, an EMT who has been a TSA serviceman for astir 2 months, told the bureau she performed the babe mentation of the Heimlich maneuver, placing the babe look down connected her limb and patting him connected the backmost to get him breathing again.

It was the archetypal clip she had performed the method connected an infant, she said. A pediatric EMT arrived a abbreviated clip aboriginal to springiness the babe oxygen. A TSA spokesperson said the bureau didn’t cognize what caused the babe to halt breathing.

“I saw the video afterward,” Morales said. “It was the archetypal clip I’ve ever seen myself successful action, redeeming a life. It was mind-blowing to watch. I felt that my grooming and acquisition conscionable took over.”

“Two months connected the occupation and she’s virtually a life-saver,” Thomas Carter, the TSA’s Federal Security Director for New Jersey said successful a statement. “Officer Morales’s speedy absorption and actions helped guarantee that this household volition person a blessed vacation season. Her actions were inspiring.”