{"id":3618,"date":"2025-10-14T21:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3618\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:35:15","slug":"texas-girl-leah-saves-brother-from-choking-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3618\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas girl Leah saves brother from choking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThere&#8217;s *** be. This is ready. 3 3 OK? I can go get Mom.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Texas girl saves brother from choking using technique her mom helped her learn<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760477715_286_cnn.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"CNN logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 4:26 PM EDT Oct 14, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Texas boy is alive thanks to quick thinking from his big sister.Police say the two were jumping on a trampoline when he started choking.Video shows the girl, Leah, performing abdominal thrusts. Police said she learned the choking rescue technique from a babysitting guide and her mom.According to the National Library of Medicine, choking may block a person&#8217;s airway, and brain damage can happen in as little as 4 to 6 minutes if oxygen can&#8217;t flow to the brain.Police said Leah proves age is no barrier to being a hero. CNN contributed to this report.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Texas boy is alive thanks to quick thinking from his big sister.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the two were jumping on a trampoline when he started choking.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the girl, Leah, performing abdominal thrusts. Police said she learned the choking rescue technique from a babysitting guide and her mom.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/ency\/article\/000047.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Library of Medicine<\/a>, choking may block a person&#8217;s airway, and brain damage can happen in as little as 4 to 6 minutes if oxygen can&#8217;t flow to the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Leah proves age is no barrier to being a hero. <\/p>\n<p>CNN contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s *** be. This is ready. 3 3 OK? I can go get Mom. Texas girl saves brother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3993,3980,3991,3994,3990,3981,3995,3986,3988,3977,3971,3983,3978,3982,3972,3979,3996,3970,3984,3987,672,3992,3175,3976,3985,27,3973,3989,29,28,3974,3975,2459],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abdominal-thrust","tag-abdominal-thrusts","tag-age","tag-airway","tag-alive-thank","tag-back-blows","tag-big-sister","tag-brain-damage","tag-brother","tag-brother-saved","tag-choking","tag-choking-first-aid","tag-choking-rescue","tag-cpr","tag-girl-saves-brother-from-choking","tag-heimlich","tag-hero","tag-ldnd","tag-leah","tag-mom","tag-police","tag-quick-thinking","tag-rescue","tag-sister","tag-technique","tag-texas","tag-texas-girl","tag-texas-girl-leah","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trampoline","tag-trampoline-choking","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}