Girl Rescues Baby Brother From Fire
_(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, January 5. A 13-year-old girl scrambled through . a hole in a window made by her pet dog tonight to rescue her baby brother from a blazing room. The girl, Irene Turner, was visiting her grandmother who lives next door to her home in Evelyn street. Liverpool, when she smelt smoke and heard her pet Alsatian, Trixie, barking. Scrambling over the backyard wall, she found her 14-year-old brother. Albert, with his jacket on fire, and saw the dog jumping at the living room window. The dog’s repeated jumps broke a hole large enovjgh for Irene to scramble through to rescue her baby brother, Terence, aged three, whose hair was ablaze. She pushed Terence through the broken window after trying to put out the flames with her hands. \
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27860, 7 January 1956, Page 9
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