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Show I Three Year Old Starts Fire ; Rescues Brother Older From Flames Girl Climbs Out Window I'nloeks Screen Door Helps Brother to Safety Credit is given Barbara Rao Wright, aged throe, for savins the lives of herself anil her five year old brother, Ivan Loe. at noon ' Wednesday, Jan. 21. when fire , totally destroyed their frame L home. The fatlier. Pfc. Chester Wright is on the front line de-fense de-fense in Germany. The mother, Mrs. Helen Bundy Wright, had gone to a neighbors . for milk and had looked the children in the' house with an outside latch, so that the boy. who was ill with a cold following tonsilectomy, would not get out in the cold air. While she was gone, Barbara Rae attempted to replenish the stove fire with paper and started the blaze in the room. It was soon beyond her control. Small as she was. she knew something must be done, so she managed to raise a window in one of the rooms, crawled out. unlocked un-locked the outside catch on the screen door and helped her broth- er to safety. The fire was seen first by Mrs. Lee Laub. who was returning home from a trip to Las Vegas. She left her children and suit case in the street and ran back to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Le- " Roy Larson to give the alarm. 55 The Larsons and other neighbors ; rushed to the scene, but the in-g in-g terior of the building and all of j3 the furniture and belongings were 3 in flames. 56 Although the St. George Fire 50 (Continued on page four) n. Wright Fire (Continued from first page) Department responded immediately, immediate-ly, the fire was already beyond control, and the house was leveled almost to the ground and practically practic-ally nothing was saved. ' . The Red Cross and other units have already responded and will provide for the needs of Mrs. Wright and 'her children'. ii |