BOY’S CLOTHES ABLAZE
SCOUT BROTHER'S BRAVE, PROMPT ACTION BOTH SEVERELY BURNED [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, January 26. When Ivor James Lawson, aged eight, ran home screaming with his clothes ablaze from contact with a grass fire at Kingsland, his elder brother Alan, a member of the Wesley Boy Scout Troop, seized a blanket, wrapped it round his brother, and rolled him over and over, extinguishing the flames. Both boys were taken to the hospital severely burned, James seriously, though his condition is improving, while Alan later returned home.
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Evening Star, Issue 23175, 26 January 1939, Page 16
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89BOY’S CLOTHES ABLAZE Evening Star, Issue 23175, 26 January 1939, Page 16
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