| Show BOY STICKS TO switchboard IN HOSPITAL HOPITAL FIRE firemen find the boy on floor at post after saving patients englewood Ent lewood N J fifty patients were carried safely from a blazing hospital recently while a substitute office boy acted sr the role of hero in true movie style the boy Is fifteen year old john mn ma who was sitting at the hospital switchboard when flames shot out of the xray X ray room A nurse told him to stick by his plugs as long as he could so that all wards might be notified of the fire john Is a sticker half an hour later when the patients most of them surgical cases and helpless had been removed from we uie building and all the volunteer olun teer on the floor lay a form helpers had been withdrawn a fireman took a last look lust just on the chance that some one had been overlooked lo 10 01 ced kicks when rescued sure enough on the floor of the a office lay a form almost obscured by byi the smoke at tle the height of a mans head the smoke was thick enough to suffocate one who breathed it it the fireman immediately put his rescue training in use grabbed the recumbent ones heels and yanked him toward safety lemme gol go bowled bawled john lemme go I 1 gotta golta tend the switchboard and im just lying on the floor to keep out ot of the smoke the fireman explained that the fire was over so far as jolin john was concerned and dragged him out only the wooden portion of the hospital was burned A mother with a day old babe was one of the patients removed A club next door was turned over to house aliouse the homeless sick ones for far the ti time e being englewood Is discussing a medal or something for john |
