Baby saved by throw
(K.Z. Press Assn.— Copi/riahO SYDNEY. Feb. 18. A woman threw her 22-week-old baby girl from a second-storey window to a passing workman in an escape in Sydney today. Her husband and son died in the fire. The workman had climbed on to a first-storey awning, threatened by the fast-spreading flames, after the woman screamed her plea to save the child. The worker and an offduty police constable had earlier tried in vain to kick in the doors of the blazing building. The workman climbed on to the awning, and the child was thrown to him. He then broke the woman’s fall. The police said the other child, a boy aged two, and the woman’s husband, were asphyxiated when they tried to follow her. The members of the family were the only occupants of the building.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33154, 19 February 1973, Page 6
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