GIRL SAVES SIX CHILDREN.

Shannon News, 11 March 1924, Page 4

GIRL SAVES SIX CHILDREN.

iTWELVE-YEAR-OLD HEROINE.

1 Although a fire was raging on the floor below and the roam in which' she stood coughing and choking was filled i with smoke,, Norah Hall, the 1 twelve-year-old daughter of a Grimsby electrician, refused to let the fireman carry her to safety until her five youn- ' ger brothers and sisters were rescued. [ The family live at Wellow House,

Wellowgate, on the ground floof of which are showrooms and workshops. One night the six children were in

bed, when the father, Mr. E. A. Hall, > found the workshop in flames. /

He telephoned to the fire station and» then tried to make; his way again; but could not do so because of the heat and smoke. ;

Mrs. Hall, after appearing at a window and calling to the firemen to assist 1 1 her children, collapsed. She" Was carried to the street'and revived.-

• Sergeant Mackay and Fireman Greetham climbed through into the smokefilled room and found Norah. “Please don’t ipake me go; there are other children before me,” she said. The smoke’was so thick in the .upper rooms that the firemen could not find their way about; ,but ; ■ guided -by the cool-headed girl, they visited the bedrooms and secured the five sleeping children, the eldest of whom was only six.

After seeing them- passed safely down the escape Norah collapsed and was herself carried unconscious from the building.