Michael Russell Kossow saved Hartley G. Seymour from suffocation, Greenfield, Wisconsin, January 9, 1980. Seymour, 72, was in a rest room off a store’s second-floor hall, which became filled with dense smoke as a result of fire in a utility room about 40 feet away. Hearing Seymour call for help, Kossow, 23, machine operator, ascended to the second floor. He crawled through the smoke and reached the restroom door, where he found Seymour. Coughing from effects of the smoke, Kossow dragged Seymour to the stairs and down them to a landing from which others then removed him to the outside. Seymour required hospitalization for smoke inhalation. 57153-6548
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