{"id":120961,"date":"2021-12-24T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120961"},"modified":"2021-12-23T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:18:53","slug":"a-different-kind-of-valor-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120961","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of Valor Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Davyon Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Get a load of this kid. He’s a sixth-grader and he’s out saving lives. Two in a single day! What’d you do with your Thursday?<\/p>\n

NPR Reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n

An 11-year-old boy from Oklahoma is being honored for his heroism after he saved a choking classmate and rescued a woman from a house fire in one day.<\/p>\n

Davyon Johnson was named an honorary member of both the sheriff’s office and the police force and was recognized by the board of education in his hometown of Muskogee, a city about 50 miles southeast of Tulsa.<\/p>\n

“Davyon performed the Heimlich maneuver on a classmate on December 9 and that evening helped a woman from her house that was on fire,” the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook last week.<\/p>\n

The Muskogee Public Schools posted a series of photos showing Davyon posing with his various awards and certificates.<\/p>\n

Davyon performed an “abdominal thrust” \u2014 also known as the Heimlich maneuver \u2014 on a classmate at the 6th & 7th Grade Academy at Ben Franklin, according to the Enid News & Eagle.<\/p>\n

Principal Latricia Dawkins told the newspaper that a student was trying to loosen the cap of his water bottle with his mouth when he choked and stumbled into a nearby classroom, where Davyon rushed over to help.<\/p>\n

“Davyon immediately sprinted over and did the Heimlich maneuver,” Dawkins said. “From the account of the witnesses, when he did it, the bottle cap popped out.”<\/p>\n

Davyon told the newspaper that he had learned the maneuver on YouTube and encouraged others to learn it in case of emergencies.<\/p>\n

Later that same day, Davyon saved a woman from a burning house. He said he saw her on her porch and crossed the street to help her get into her truck and leave.<\/p>\n

“I thought, ‘Oh, she’s not moving fast enough,’ ” he told Tulsa’s News on 6. “So I ran across the street and helped her to her truck.”<\/p>\n

Dawkins told the News & Eagle that Davyon is well liked by his classmates and teachers, calling him “a kind soul” and a “dual hero.”<\/p>\n

“He has always indicated that he wants to be an EMT,” she said. “So he got to put that desire into action and immediately saved that young man.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This kid’s got a bright future. We need more like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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