Norman Geary saved James F. Willoughby from burning, Moorman, Kentucky, February 4, 1948. While James, 5, was asleep on a bed in the living-room of a one-story frame house, Norman, 13, schoolboy, saw smoke rising from the eaves and shoved open the door of the kitchen adjoining the livingroom. The walls and ceilings of both rooms were burning, and pieces of burning paper were dropping from the ceilings. Through smoke, Norman crawled on his hands and knees to the bed, at the foot of which the top blanket was afire. Norman pulled off the blankets, picked up James, and holding him in one arm crawled, reversing his course to the outside as a man got open an outside door to the livingroom but was forced back by flames. Five minutes later the roof collapsed, and in the next 15 minutes the house was destroyed. Norman suffered a coughing spell, his face was reddened from heat, and he was nervous; but neither he nor James was burned. 41311-3553
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