By Police1 Staff
HOBART, Ind. — An Indiana officer’s first day on the job included saving a child’s life at a Chick-fil-A.
WGN-TV reports that Officer Richard Mayer was at the restaurant Friday afternoon to get lunch with his colleagues when a mother rushed to their tables with her 15-month-old daughter. The mother, Melanie Hassee, said her daughter Charlotte wasn’t breathing.
Mayer said he and another officer grabbed the child, flipped her over and did “the back slaps, three to four of them.”
The officers were able to dislodge an apple that was stuck in her throat.
“I’m just so thankful he was there at the right time,” Melanie says. “I don’t think this was a coincidence that this was his first day. I think he was meant to be somebody who protects and who saves and I’m just so thankful for him.”
Mayer said he has a 1-year-old daughter on his own and has actually used the same baby Heimlich Maneuver on her before.
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