Man Reunites With Good Samaritan Who Saved His Life When He Began Choking
The hero was actually going to have dinner somewhere else that fateful night.
A New York man has reunited with the diner who saved his life after he began choking at a restaurant.
Juan Camacho was having dinner with his wife at an Italian restaurant, Da Noi, on Staten Island, N.Y., Friday night when he started choking on a lamb chop.
“I couldn't breathe anymore,” he recalled to Inside Edition.
His wife tried to do the Heimlich maneuver, but it wasn't helping working.
It was then that Stephen Cresci, a firefighter sitting nearby who was having dinner with his pregnant wife, Jennifer, jumped into action.
“He couldn't talk at all," Cresci recalled. "His face was turning red, so I got right behind him."
Cresci was able to properly execute the Heimlich maneuver, and clear Camacho's airway.
“The next thing I knew, I was breathing again,” Camacho said.
Stephen and Jennifer, whose child is due any day, were actually planning to go to a different restaurant that night.
“As I'm watching him I started to cry,” Jennifer told Inside Edition. "I didn’t know what was going on with the man and I was like, 'Oh my God! I hope he can do this.'"
In an interesting turn of events, it was the first time the firefighter had ever performed the Heimlich maneuver.
RELATED STORIES
Trending on Inside Edition

New DNA Evidence Could Crack Brutal Cold Case Murders of Elderly Georgia Couple Russell and Shirley Dermond
Crime
Family of Christian Glass Reaches $19 Million Settlement in Fatal Police Shooting of Colorado Man
Crime
LAPD Volunteer Officer Who Survived Near-Fatal Bee Attack on Live TV Speaks Out
Heroes