BRAVE BLINDED MAN
FAMILY SAVED FROM FIBE. LONDON, January 22. After he hail been awakened by the roar of flames in his bedroom, which was filled with smoko, Alfred Header, a blind ex-service man, and the proprietor of a chandler’s shop in Camdentown, dragged his wife and two children to the window. He clambered out himself on to the sloping snow-covered roof of an outhonse, but crashed through a skylight. When he fell he was almost precipitated into the flames, but he clung to the edge and climbed out He then assisted his family over the roofs of outhouses, and then jumped into a neighbour’s backyard. Meanwhile Louisa Smith, aged 13, who lived in the rooms above the Meadors’, awakened her family, and, with her two-year-old brother in her arms, she shepherded her brother and sister to safety down the smoke-filled and charred staircase, while the mother followed, parrying a baby three months old.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20022, 12 February 1927, Page 13
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154BRAVE BLINDED MAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 20022, 12 February 1927, Page 13
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