John A. Onbey, 44, dairyman, attempted to save Sherry L. Ramsey, 3 months, from burning, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 3, 1958. While Sherry was asleep in a bedroom in a one-story frame dwelling, fire broke out in the adjoining living room. Sherry’s mother and a neighbor woman she had been visiting were unable to enter the dwelling because of the smoke and flame conditions but broke the window of Sherry’s room. A number of neighbors, including Onbey, were attracted. Flames then burned in all four rooms of the dwelling, part of the living room ceiling had fallen, and heat was intense. in the dense smoke the edge of Sherry’s bed could barely he seen. After wrapping a wet cloth around his head, Onbey dived through the window opening and landed prone with his chest and arms on the bed and his feet on the window sill. The smoke caused him to choke, and he slid from the bed onto the floor. Onbey nearly lost consciousness but raised himself back onto the bed and located Sherry. He removed her blanket, which was burning with flames six to eight inches high, and placed his arm around her. Coughing violently, Onbey backed through the window opening with Sherry and jumped to the ground. A minute later the bedroom ceiling began to collapse. Firemen arrived and extinguished the flames, but the dwelling was destroyed. Sherry, who had suffered third degree burns on 40 per cent of her body, died the following day. Onbey’s arms were seared from contact with the floor. He recovered
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