By Associated Press - Sunday, August 9, 2015

DALLAS (AP) - A woman who began choking at a Dallas Mexican restaurant is crediting Mayor Mike Rawlings with using the Heimlich maneuver to clear her airway.

WFAA TV (https://bit.ly/1f1PJ1z ) reports that Helen Mayer was having lunch with about eight family members at El Fenix restaurant downtown when she began choking on bites of fajita meat.

Rawlings was finishing lunch with his son when he heard screaming from a nearby table.



Mayer said she remembered standing up while choking, but little else: “The next thing I knew, this gentleman had picked me up from behind and did the Heimlich maneuver.”

She said she blacked out and didn’t know it was the mayor who helped her until coming around.

Rawlings said he learned the Heimlich from his past as a lifeguard and Boy Scout.

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Information from: The Dallas Morning News, https://www.dallasnews.com

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