TSA officers save woman choking on a doughnut

NEW YORK (WABC) -- After a week of damning allegations about not protecting the lives of the public, two TSA officers are getting credit for saving the life of a woman about to board a plane.

She was choking on of all things, on this "national doughnut day," a doughnut and that's when the officers jumped into action.

Here's the scene, at an international terminal at JFK. A couple was going through security for a flight to Italy, when suddenly the woman, standing next to her husband, starts choking on a doughnut.

Fortunately, two TSA officers saw the commotion and responded.

Anthony Bravara is on the right and his partner Glenn Davis is on the left.

Davis took charge.

"I attempted to do the Heimlich maneuver twice and it was unsuccessful at which point she lost consciousness, so I lowered her to the ground and I put her on her side to try to continue to try to dislodge the obstruction," Davis said.

But time was definitely running out. Officer Davis knew that by what he saw next.

"At that point she started to turn blue around the face, lips, hands, things like that. I rolled her on her back. I felt for a pulse and I couldn't' get one," Davis said.

They worked frantically, Davis estimates for three to five minutes. Can you imagine?

And then, there was success.

"At one point she started to breathe on her own, so we turned her on her side and just monitored her breathing, and slowly but surely she started to come back to the point where she was talking," Davis said. "It all happens pretty quick, and afterward you think about it, but it all kicks in when you are doing it."

How did the TSA officer know how to save this woman's life? It turns out Davis is also a volunteer firefighter on Long Island, for the Suffolk County Hamlet of Manorville.

And he gets retrained every year in CPR.

Who's the woman he saved? No one knows. We hope they're having a good trip to Italy.