Firemen hear woman screaming and save her choking baby

The dangerous incident took place on Monday morning in Gdańsk. A woman named Giulia wrote to us at the Kontakt24 platform and shared her story. She said her 11-week-old son Staś had choked and stopped breathing. "I know the procedure of rescuing babies and I applied it, but to no effect," she explained.

In that moment she recalled there was a fire station next to her house. She hoper she would receive help there.

"I ran outside the house in pyjamas and slippers and I shouted for help. Luckily, they heard me. The gate was closed, but they jumped over the fence. One of the firemen took my son from me and started to rescue him. He saved his life," the woman said.

"We heard screaming, but this kind of desperate call for help. We ran out of the kitchen, jumped over the fence, and saw a woman running with a little baby in her hands. Mariusz was the first to reach her. It turned out it was a very little baby, not moving," said Michał Orzeł from No.5 Fire Station in Gdańsk.

He added that Mariusz had checked if the baby had something in its mouth, while another fireman tapped the boy in the back.

"As a result, thanks to Mariusz's reaction, the little one started to breath again, straightened up and looked at us. In that moment medical rescuers from our station ran to us. They were helping all along, they had to run for a medical kit," Orzeł said.

Later on the firefighters took the mother and her boy to a hospital.

"He has been checked and he is all fine," Giulia said, adding it was unclear what the boy had choked on. The doctors say it could have been his saliva.

Later that day, the woman bought a pizza and went to help the firemen. "It turned out that Mariusz is a father himself and he took the situation very emotionally too. Later I was thinking how else I could thank and reward him for his help, and that's why I decided to write to you," she explained.

The whole situation was captured on CCTV. The fire service published the video on Thursday. They also met with the family and gave the boy a gift in the form of one elephant-firefighter for hugging.

Jacek Jakóbczyk from Gdańsk Fire Service Headquarters urges everyone to take a first aid course.

"Situation when first aid is necessary are happening all the time, and always come as a surprise and a big stress. Not always there will be a fire station nearby, not always there will be an ambulance available. It's wise to learn first aid, it's worth to have these skills, as they may prove priceless at home, in the street, and practically anywhere," the fireman said.