Graham E. Greenough, 36, farmer, attempted to save Penny Lee and Carol Ann Carver, 6 and 4, respectively, from burning, Newport, Nova Scotia, February 7, 1968. At night fire broke out in a two-story frame dwelling where Penny Lee and Carol Ann were in a second-floor bedroom and their sister, Paula Mary, was in a bedroom on the ground floor. Their mother, discovering that there were flames in the basement and also on the second floor, took her 4-year-old son outside. Greenough ran to the dwelling. Learning that Penny Lee and Carol Ann ,were in their upstairs bedroom, Greenough ran through the kitchen and started up the stairway, but the dense smoke forced him to retreat. With a towel over his face he then ascended the stairs nearly to the top. The smoke made him dizzy, and he fell to the bottom of the stairway. Emerging from the dwelling, Greenough obtained a wooden ladder and, with the aid of others who had arrived, raised it to the only window of the bedroom occupied by the two girls. When the glass was broken, flames and smoke issued from the opening. Greenough ascended the ladder but was unable to reach the window because of the flames. He became nauseated and was removed from the scene. Among others who learned of the fire and went to the dwelling was Terry L. Manning. On being told that a child had been heard crying in a downstairs room, Manning entered the kitchen, which then was afire. Conditions forced him to retreat from the dwelling. Manning then went to the window of Paula Mary’s room. He broke the glass and climbed into the smoke-filled bedroom. Locating Paula Mary on the bed, he took her to the window and handed her to a man outside. After listening for cries of other children and hearing none, Manning climbed out of the bedroom. He became nauseated and was removed from the scene. Firemen arrived and extinguished the flames, but the dwelling was completely destroyed. Penny Lee and Carol Ann perished in the fire, as did their baby brother who was in a crib in another room. Paula Mary, Greenough, and Manning recovered from effects of the smoke.
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