The Brief<\/p>\n
Thirteen-year-old Jermaine Whitehead was in class when his classmate started choking on gum.<\/p>\n
Jermaine was recognized and honored at a Kaster Intermediate school assembly this week for his quick thinking.<\/p>\n
The two weren\u2019t that close before, but this scary moment developed their friendship into something greater.<\/p>\n
FRESNO, Calif. – Heroes come in all ages: this hero is a seventh grader from Fresno who stopped his classmate from choking.<\/p>\n
Student jumps into action<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Thirteen-year-old Jermaine Whitehead was in class when his teacher told his peer, Kacen Brown, 12, to stop chewing gum. Instead, Kacen started choking on it.<\/p>\n
“I was so scared \u2013 is he going to survive, is he good?… I knew nothing, I just tried to save him,” Jermaine said.<\/p>\n
He tried and succeeded. Jermaine jumped into action, thrusting his fists into his classmate’s belly.<\/p>\n
The two weren\u2019t that close before, but this scary moment developed their friendship into something greater.<\/p>\n
“I know him a lot better now. We are like friends now \u2013 I see him as a best friend to me,” said Kacen.<\/p>\n
Honored by the school<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
Jermaine was recognized and honored at a Kaster Intermediate school assembly this week for his quick thinking, surrounded by the community, his family, and of course, his new BFF.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Interviews by Jermaine Whitehead and Kacen Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Thirteen-year-old Jermaine Whitehead was in class when his classmate started choking on gum. Jermaine was recognized…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,141860,141861,141862],"class_list":["post-345724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-jermaine-whitehead","tag-kacen-brown","tag-quick-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}