Millard A. Dudley, 35, assembler, saved Douglas A. Kida, 4, from burning, Chicopee, Massachusetts, May 12, 1946. Douglas lay in a bedroom adjoining the kitchen of an apartment on the second floor of a house when the house caught fire. Through a front door Dudley entered a hallway, which was dense with smoke. He was not familiar with the interior and did not know the location of the occupants. Tying a handkerchief over his nose and carrying a flashlight, he ascended to the second floor. As he walked in a hallway, flame and heat forced open a door and knocked him staggering to another stairway; and he fell down to the first floor kitchen. After walking through dense smoke in two rooms and seeing no one, he went out through the kitchen and ascended an outside stairway to the second floor kitchen, where he met the parents of Douglas. Following the father, who went into the bedroom and picked up a younger child, Dudley picked up Douglas, returned to the stairway, and descended to the ground. Douglas was uninjured. The flames were extinguished in a half an hour. Dudley suffered minor burns. 40734-3494
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