FILE - In this image released by Lionsgate, Jennifer Lawrence portrays Katniss Everdeen in a scene from "The Hunger Games," opening on Friday, March 23, 2012. Lionsgate announced today that "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay," Part 1 will be released on November 21, 2014, and Part 2, will be released on November 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Lionsgate, Murray Close, File) (AP)
A young Massachusetts girl used a first aid tip learned from reading “The Hunger Games” series to rescue her friend.
Megan Gething, 12, and her friend Mackenzie George, were at a marshland in Gloucester with a few other friends on June 3 when George slipped and fell into a steel pump, cutting her calf, according to the Gloucester Times.
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“I didn’t feel anything. I thought I just bumped my leg, but when I pulled it up I saw the cut and I started screaming to call 911,” George told the Gloucester Times.
Megan jumped into action and tied a pair of shorts around Mackenzie’s leg to slow the blood loss, a tip she learned from the young adult science fiction novels, while another friend went to get help.
“I knew it from a book I read,” Gething said about the “The Hunger Games.” “I figured it was a well-known method of stopping bleeding.”
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A few minutes later, George was transported to the hospital and had to undergo surgery. She is expected to recover.
“Megan was the star of the show,” Mackenzie’s father, Gregory said. “Thank goodness she was there. Mackenzie would have lost a lot more blood, and it could have been life-threatening if she hadn’t done what she did.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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