CRIPPLED WOMAN RESCUED FROM BLAZING HOUSE
' WELLINGTON, August 21. A partly crippled woman was rescued by a woman neighbour from a blazmg hoiise at Newtown last night. Taken from her fire-fllled bedroom into tlie temporary safety of the halT, the virtual invalid, Mrs. J. ktexted, about 70, was later half dijagged, half carried outside bv middle-aged neighbour, Mrs. E. A. Fergttson. As it was tlie rescued woman was burut on both legs and surfered shock. Wellington Hospital re- . ported her condition last night saitisfactory. I The- fire "broke out in Mrs. Mexted's 1 bedroom about 10.20 p,m, Her son carJ ried her into the hall which was tnen safe,- while he .went next door to tele phone the brigade, Meanwhile the flames had spread to the hall and other parts of the house. Mrs, Fergusen. to whose house the son had gone, rushed through the ffames and got Mrs. Mexted to the verandah. | ifrs. Ferguson 's philosopbv about her part in the rescue was: — "I did what any neighbour wonld have done."
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 August 1949, Page 5
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