Charles F. Lentino, 22, plumber, saved Carrie J., 21, and Mary A. Shallow, 14; Annie Carifi, 31, and others from burning, New York, New York, October 5, 1908. Lentino entered a burning tenement house and assisted Carrie through smoke from the second floor to the street. He then climbed up a water spout on the outside of the building and helped Mary reach a place of safety from a narrow ledge upon which she stood. He then climbed the fire?escape to the third and fourth floors and assisted Mrs. Carifi and 13 others to the ground, at one time entering a room on the third floor and bringing out five children, all of whom he carried down the fire?escape to safety. While on the fourth-floor fire?escape helping an old man out of a window, Lentino, feeling a rush of smoke, looked down and saw flames and smoke issuing from the first-floor door and the windows below him and was about to jump to the street, when firemen raised a ladder and he climbed down. The old man was safely taken to the ground. 2964-538
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