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Double hero Davyon Johnson
Photo: Cathy Spaulding / AP
Eleven-year-old Davyon Johnson is an everyday superhero - in this case it's no empty phrase.
In early December, the Oklahoma boy saved the life of a classmate who was suffocating and helped a woman escape from a burning house - in just one day.
As a result, Johnson was made an honorary member of the Muskogee Police and Sheriff's Department last week.
This is reported, among others, by the US media and the AP news agency.
Johnson performed the Heimlich life-saving maneuver at his school in Muskogee on a classmate who was about to choke on a bottle cap.
He tried to fill his water bottle and open the lid with his mouth.
The cap slipped down his neck, the headmistress from Muskogee Latricia Dawkins reported, according to the AP.
The suffocating student stumbled into a nearby classroom where Johnson was.
"Davyon sprinted over and performed the Heimlich maneuver," Dawkins said.
"According to the testimony of the witnesses, the bottle cap popped out."
Rescue from fire shortly after Heimlich-Griff
Later that day, Johnson helped a woman evacuate her burning home.
"It was a disabled woman who was just leaving her house," he said.
“She was on her porch.
But I thought, as a good citizen, I would go over and help her get in her car and get out of the house. "He said the fire broke out in the back of the house," but it eventually got to the front of the house «.
Davyon Johnson's mother, LaToya Johnson, said she wasn't surprised her son behaved like this.
She said her brother Wendell Johnson was a paramedic.
"I'm just a proud mother," she added.
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