(CNN)A Saturday afternoon shift turned into an act of heroism for one Minnesota teen.
When 15-year-old Sydney Raley clocked in for her Saturday shift at a McDonald's in Eden Prairie, a few miles south of Minneapolis, she didn't expect to clock out as a hero.
Sydney has been working at McDonald's for around seven months and told CNN that this was just another routine weekend shift. "The day had been mostly normal -- making coffee, making drinks. Going into the lunch rush, it was all normal." she said.
After handing a customer some of her food in the drive-thru, Sydney popped back out of the window to let her know the rest was on the way. That's when Sydney noticed the woman was choking on a chicken nugget.
"She was coughing like crazy, and I noticed she was gagging." Sydney told CNN. "Her daughter was in the passenger seat and she looked so freaked out. I immediately knew 'Oh, no, she's choking."
Sydney instructed both her manager and the woman's daughter to call 911 as she quickly jumped through the window to help the woman.
Sydney told CNN she took a Red Cross babysitter class at age 11, where she learned the Heimlich maneuver, and "all that training immediately kicked in."
The maneuver didn't work the first couple of times Sydney tried, so she called on a bystander to assist.
'"We worked together and were able to successfully dislodge the food from her throat." Sydney said.
Eventually the nugget was set free, and the woman was able to breathe again. Afterwards, the...
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