Housewife Saves Boy From Fire

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31579, 17 January 1968, Page 2

Housewife Saves Boy From Fire

<New Zealand Presa Aaaociation) WELLINGTON, January 16. A young Stokes Valley housewife, Mrs P. Cummings saved a 12-year-old boy from being badly burnt in a shed fire late yesterday afternoon.

Mrs Cummings was preparing her tea about 4.10 p.m. when she saw smoke and flames shooting out of a neighbour’s shed door beside the block of flats in which she lives on the corner of Delaney Drive and Hanson Grove.

then pulled through the window. He was burnt about the face, one hand ,and the upper part of one foot. He was also cut by the glass in the window. He was taken to the Hutt Hospital, treated, and discharged. Mrs Cummings extinguished the fire with a garden hose which had already suffered in the fire. Fire brigade units from Lower Hutt and Stokes Valley, were called but were not needed.

She knew two boys were playing in the shed and she saw only one come out Inside were inflammable materials, including solvents, thinners, petrol and kerosene. Mrs Cummings screamed to attract neighbours and broke out the bottom half of the shed window as the boy trapped inside attempted to break open the top half. The boy. Dean Offord. was