Student Suffocates To Death In Pancake Competition

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

What should have been a fun pancake-eating competition ended up becoming a tragedy at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, when one of the participants choked on tortillas in the middle of the activity.

Caitlin Nelson, a social service student in her early 20s, began to suffocate after ingesting about five of the muffins. Immediately, some of her colleagues present began first aid efforts in their attempt to save her life.

"She started choking on the pancakes and someone noticed, a nursing student," said Robert Kalamaras, lieutenant of the Fairfield Town Police.

"[The student] began cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers … until officers arrived in less than two minutes, after an emergency call was made," added Kalamaras, as reported by the New York Post on its online site.

The girl was then transferred to St. Vincent's Medical Center and then taken to the Columbia University hospital in New York City, where she died last Sunday.

It is the second time that the tragedy knocks on the doors of the family of Nelson, who in the attacks of September 11, 2001 lost his father, James, one of the city policemen who died after his response to the emergency.