Firefighter/legislator saves choking woman

Representative Kerry Burt, a Democrat from Waterloo, just got a round of applause from the folks in the statehouse cafeteria.  A woman was choking.  Burt, who is a firefighter, went over and performed the Heimlich Maneuver (twice) and the food popped out of her mouth.

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