Edward P. McCullough rescued Frances M. Smyth from burning, Pensacola, Florida, September 7, 1933. Frances, 9, was riding in an automobile with her parents and four other persons when another automobile crashed into it, turning it over on its side. Gasoline became ignited, and flames three to four feet high rose close to Frances in the rear compartment. McCullough, 26, plumber, ran to the automobile and without encountering any serious danger aided five of the occupants from it. Another man aided Frances’s mother. While flames rose high in the rear compartment, McCullough broke the glass in the windshield and crawled through the frame until only the lower parts of his legs were outside. He stuck his head around the back of the front seat, removed a cushion from on top of Frances, and grabbed her forearms, from which the flesh sloughed off. Taking another hold on her arms, he then backed out, scraping his leg on jagged glass in the frame. Frances died later in the night from burns. McCullough sustained slight burns on his face and arms and a laceration on his leg. 33433-2780
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