Show husband spurns help until ill III wife Is saved new york trapped by names flames in their fifth floor apartment edward IT Koff enberg offenberg spurned rescue until firemen had taken ills his invalid wife to safety the couple are ara each sixty five years old Koff coffenberg Koffen enberg berc with escape cut ort off by way of the stairs was crouched on the fire escape when the firemen arrived under command of captain reigh an aerial ladder was run up and firemen hawkins bayard ilig gans and cook mounted to toe the level of the fire escape where Koff coffenberg enberg stood silhouetted against the glare of the flames within it took hawkins and bayard but a moment to leap from the ladder to the frail steel balcony and then step into the smoke filled room where coffenberg Kot Koff fenberg enberg pointed out his bedridden bed ridden wife they lifted the woman out and passed her to the two firemen on the ladder who carried her down dom to the street then lI hawking awkins and bayard helped the husband down while uhle the crowd in the street cheered |