Leanue Davis, Jr. rescued Jocelyn L. Palma from burning, Gloversville, New York, November 8, 2007. Jocelyn, 3, and her sister were on the second floor of their grandmother’s two-story house after fire broke out in the kitchen, on the first floor. A neighbor had entered the house and was leaving it with the sister as Davis, 46, a disabled construction worker who lived in the house, arrived home. Davis entered through the front door and approached the stairway, which was adjacent to the burning kitchen. By then, flames were spreading to the stairway and issued along its ceiling. In dense smoke, he went upstairs and, calling out for Jocelyn, found her exiting a bedroom. He picked her up and returned to the top of the stairs but found his course blocked by deteriorating conditions. Davis took the girl into a bedroom, opened a window, and lowered her by the arms to two men standing on the ground. He then jumped from the window to safety. Jocelyn was treated at the hospital for first-degree burns to her arms and cuts to her face, and she singed her hair. She recovered. Davis sustained minor burns to his forehead, forearms, and left leg.
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