Ethel L. Holman, 37, housewife, rescued Robert W. Barnes, 15 months, and Ross W. Barnes, 3 months, from burning, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, December 10, 1952. At dusk, a fire broke out in a three-room frame house and ignited the walls and ceiling of the bedroom in which Robert and his brother Ross occupied cribs three feet apart. No one else was in the house. Mrs. Holman seeing smoke ran 200 feet to the only outside door of the house and entered. She ran through a storage room and the kitchen to reach the bedroom. Half of the ceiling was burning, and dense flames which covered the wall near Robert had ignited his crib. Heat was intense. Standing between the cribs and within six inches of the flames, Mrs. Holman took hold of Robert and with her other hand lifted Ross from his crib. She carried the children to the kitchen and thence outside. Firemen extinguished the flames, which had burned through the ceiling and walls, destroying the bedroom furniture, and had spread to the kitchen. Robert sustained severe burns of the head and upper body and was hospitalized two months. Ross suffered burns of the face and shoulder but recovered. Mrs. Holman suffered severe face burns that healed normally, and her eyebrows and eyelashes were burned off. 3858-42924
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