Grace L. Bingham, 44, housewife, saved Wanda P. Simpson, 11 months, from burning, Himyar, Kentucky, January 28, 1946. Fire started in the kitchen of a two-room, one-story frame house, and Wanda was alone in the house on a bed in the adjoining room. Seeing flames at the roof, Mrs. Bingham, who was wearing a long coat and a scarf tied on her head, ran to the door of the room in which Wanda lay and opened it. Dense smoke issued. Backing away momentarily, she ran seven feet in the room and groped for Wanda’s crib, but it was not at its usual place. Flames extended four feet from the ceiling near her, and heat was intense. Backing within a foot of the door and then hearing Wanda cough, she groped along the wall to the bed. Burning boards fell just beyond the bed, and by the light of flames she saw Wanda. Lifting her, she patted out fire on Wanda’s hair, held her inside her coat, and ran back to the door and outside. Five minutes later the house collapsed. Wanda suffered minor burns and recovered. Mrs. Bingham’s eyebrows and eyelashes were singed, and the back of her neck and her shoulders were blistered. 40617-3432
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