RESCUE FROM FIRE

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 7

RESCUE FROM FIRE

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 10. A 36-year-old nurse raced up the blazing staircase of a tenement house in north-west London last night and bundled a woman and three children out of an attic window on to a fireman’s ladder regardless of the fact that her own hair was burning. Not until six injured persons had been taken to hospital would the nurse, Mrs Elisabeth Taylor, consent to being treated for shock and burns.

The rescued persons were Mrs Olga Micheal. aged 37, a Cypriot, her four children and her mother-in-law, 61-year-old Mrs Efichael Georgiou. They were treated in hospital for minor burns and discharged. Later, her hair badly burned by the flames, Mrs Taylor told her «tory.

“While my husband Peter Played the garden hose on the Hames and carried Mrs Georgiou to safety. I went up through the names and pushed the three children and their mother towards the window,” she said. “To my horror it would not open, so I smashed it. And then to my relief I saw a fireman’s ladder.

“It was nothing really, I just fll d not think of the flames and smoke. My mind was full of the Poor kiddies trapped upstairs.”