FIRE HERO AGED SIX.
STAYED WITH BABY BROTHER. Hundreds of people cheered six-year-old Kenneth Gibbs, who braved death fiom fire rather than leave his thirteen-months-old baby brother John, states an English paper. When fire broke out in their home, in Albert-court, Ilfracombe, the two little boys were trapped in a bedroom. Soon the house was a raging inferno, and then Kenneth appeared at a window while a horrified crowd gathered below. A neighbour, Mr. Lerwell, shouted to Kenneth to jump into his arms—but the little boy, with the flames licking his face, refused to leave his brother. Mr. Lerwell bravely climbed through a window and rescued the children—just as the fire spread to the room in which they were trapped.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1935, Page 18 (Supplement)
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120FIRE HERO AGED SIX. Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1935, Page 18 (Supplement)
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