Madison Swift, 23, was in her first year teaching when the frightening incident occurred a week ago. I was eating while working with a student when I suddenly started choking on my food, Swift said.

That's when three of her students 7-year-old Kolton Hersh and 6-year-olds Dereck Contreras-Franco and Bryson Doss realized something was seriously wrong.

"She choked and she cannot breathe," Contreras-Franco said.

"All of a sudden, her face and eyes started going red," Doss said, demonstrating how Swift was gesturing for help.

Each of the three boys took a different approach to helping their teacher. Contreras-Franco went for the emergency call button on the wall, and when the office answered, he and other students began screaming that Swift was choking.

Doss decided to run out the door to

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