SAVED FROM FLAMES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 3

SAVED FROM FLAMES

An 80-year-old man, Mr. V. Edwards, assisted hy his daughter, Elsie, rescued liis invalid wife from their burning homo in The Drive, Norwood, Middlesex, recently, by carrying her from her sick-room in a chair as the flames were licking the roof. "I wag sitting m my study, writing, when the fire bogan " Mr. Edwards said, "and my daughter was tending my invalid wife in another room. It must have been about 7 p.m. when I heard a crackling noise from the garden. I went and saw a tiny flame creeping along the roof of tho greenhouse. It spread with amazing rapidity. I called to my daughter to go for the fire brigade, and while she was gone, I tried to check the flames with buckets of water. But by the time she had returned, tho flames had got a good hold and were spreading to the roof of the house. We had to act quickly. My wife was my only thought and she is so ill that a severe shook might end her life. We lifted her into a chair and carried her to a nursing homo a few yards along the road. She does not realise even now what has happened. I went back to see if I could save anything from the house, but it was hopeless. Tho flames simply engulfed it. lam homeless. All niy belongings have gone—all my valuables and papers." Tea consumed in Great Britain last year totalled 465,000,0QQJb, etjual to 220,000,000 cups every day,