Firefighters Save Choking Baby

A baby boy is alive thanks to quick-thinking Framingham firefighters.

Saturday morning, the heavy rescue fire truck out of Framingham Fire Station #5 on Concord Street was out on a medical call. They had just finished when they were notified of a second medical call of a person choking minutes away. "When we arrived, the mother and other family members were outside," said Framingham Lt. Alberto Nau. "We didn't know, it was a baby choking until we got there." "The baby was choking, gurgling blood," said Lt. Nau, retelling what happened on Dec. 1. Nau took the baby and did "several back blows" on the boy, whom firefighters said was a little more than a year old. "I was able to move the toy in his throat enough that he began to cry," said Lt. Nau. "When he started crying it was the best sound. We knew he was …

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