John Tufo, 29, apprentice stereotype worker, saved Annie McLean, 88, from burning, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, March 29, 1946. Mrs. McLean, who was crippled, was on the second floor of her frame home when the house caught fire. Tufo ran up a stairway to Mrs. McLean, who was confused and resisted his efforts to aid her, and carried her to a landing on the stairway. Flames and smoke filled the stairway below him. Then thinking to escape by means of outside stairs, which he did not know had been removed, Tufo carried Mrs. McLean to the window of a rear room and kicked out the glass and frame. Tongues of flame a foot below the ceiling swept into the room to the window. Tufo stepped out onto a platform 10 feet above the ground and pulled Mrs. McLean out onto it. Flames then came out through the window for two feet from the top. From the edge of the platform he lowered Mrs. McLean to a man standing on a railing below him, who lowered her to the ground. She was uninjured. Tufo lowered himself from the platform and dropped to the ground. He sustained superficial burns. 40672-3469
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