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COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Virginia ( WTVR ) -- Three first graders at Lakeview Elementary School in Colonial Heights became unlikely heroes when they sprang into action to save their teacher's life after she started choking on food.

Madison Swift, 23, was in her first year teaching when the frightening incident occurred a week ago.

"I was eating while working with a student when I suddenly started choking on my food," Swift said.

That's when three of her students — 7-year-old Kolton Hersh and 6-year-olds Dereck Contreras-Franco and Bryson Doss — realized something was seriously wrong.

"She choked and she cannot breathe," Contreras-Franco said.

"All of a sudden, her face and eyes started going red," Doss said, demonstrating how Swift was gesturing for he

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