An avreich from Beit Shemesh relates: I volunteer in Hatzalah, and I see tangibly how Hashem safeguards Am Yisrael and brings the right people at the right time in order to save the life of a Yid.
One day I got a call: Three buildings away from me, a boy swallowed a ten-agurot coin. I ran over. The paramedic who works in the adjacent clinic arrived at the site as well. We both lacked the necessary tool. A ten-agurot coin could be swallowed smoothly, but it could also cause terrible trouble. While the paramedic got to work on the child, we discovered to our chagrin that the child was turning blue. The coin was not swallowed but rather got stuck near the windpipe, and it was a matter of seconds before the situation would become critical.
The paramedic continued working on the child using the well-known Heimlich maneuver, but the child continued struggling for every bit of air. Suddenly, a neighbor walked in holding a pair of tweezers! The paramedic took it immediately and gently guided it into the child’s larynx. Within a second the coin was out and the child was breathing comfortably.
“How was it that you arrived at the critical moment with tweezers?!” we asked the neighbor. And she explained: Her child had swallowed a coin a week earlier, and they pulled it out using tweezers borrowed from these neighbors. Then too, an ambulance arrived, and there was a huge commotion all around. Afterward, in all the excitement, the pair of tweezers was forgotten in her home and not returned to the neighbors.
Now, when she saw the ambulance arriving at the building, it reminded her of the tweezers,
