A firefighter rushed to help a passenger who collapsed just minutes before takeoff on a flight home from his honeymoon, quickly recognizing the emergency and restoring her breathing. According to the Haenam Fire Station in South Jeolla Province, Jeong Mu-woong, a 34-year-old firefighter assigned to a 119 safety center in Haenam, encountered the emergency on Feb. 14 aboard a flight from Sydney to Incheon. A Korean woman in her 40s suddenly collapsed after showing seizure-like symptoms and lost consciousness, as flight attendants prepared to perform CPR. Jeong immediately checked her pulse and determined that she was not in cardiac arrest but that her airway was blocked by her tongue. “With cases like this, every second matters,” Jeong said. “I focused on securing the airway first because breathing had to be restored quickly.” With the patient’s jaw stiffened following the seizure, he used a jaw-thrust maneuver to open her airway. He then worked with a nurse on board and used a device to keep her airway open and help maintain her breathing. The passenger regained spontaneous breath