Off-duty Brazos County deputies cleared a choking man's airway

Sgt. Zane Pedersen and Deputy Dillon Donaldson of the Brazos County Sheriff's Office received Life Saving Awards at the office's annual awards ceremony, KBTX reported. The sheriff's office said the two deputies were off duty at a Daddy-Daughter Dance at the Brazos Center in Bryan, there with their families, when they noticed a man nearby who appeared to be choking and could not breathe.

They stepped in together, cleared his airway, and restored his breathing, officials said. The sheriff's office put it this way: serving others does not end when the uniform comes off. The report names the deputies and the place. It does not say when the dance was held, and it does not name the man they helped.