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Hampton Bays Boy Scout Saves Life at Jamboree

Boys being boys, fooling around, turned near fatal over the weekend as one Boy Scout at the National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia began choking on a cupcake that he shoved in his mouth as a fellow scout chased him out of a tent.

Luckily, for the victim, Charlie Schneider, a Boy Scout from Hampton Bays, was at the right place at the right time.

"He started coughing pretty violently," said Schneider, who recognized immediately that his fellow scout needed help.

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"He gave the international sign for choking — his hands around his neck," Schneider said.

With prior EMS and first aid training, Schneider sprang into action — he called for an adult and then went to work performing the Heimlich maneuver.

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"He continued to cough for a bit and then he was able to spit out the cupcake," Schneider said.  

Schneider, who is a junior member of the Hampton Bays Volunteer Ambulance, has been a Boy Scout since the first grade and will soon begin working on his Eagle Scout project, which will earn him the highest award in Scouting.

For his project, he plans to catalog all of the veterans in Good Ground Cemetery and place markers at their graves.

Schneider, who will be a senior at Hampton Bays High School in September, hopes to one day enter the Navy as a paramedic or be part of the military's special forces.


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