ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP — Toast doesn't kill people. Delicious toast you eat too quickly kills people.

Rockaway Township

Well, unless you have someone handy as 13-year-old Boy Scout Daniel Russo around.

The teen was honored late last month by the Rockaway Township Council for saving his father's life by performing the Heimlich maneuver when his father was choking on a piece of toast, The Citizen of Morris County reports.

“I’m extremely proud and grateful,” father Frank Russo said, according to the report. “I look at my son now as a young man who saved my life and my hero. I’m glad he had the training of the Boy Scouts.”

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