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The Ohio Daily Express
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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Postal clerk Bud Gibbons in Marysville, Calif., heroically saved 17 residents from a fire that spread from a nearby lumber yard to the Ebner house, a home for the aged, preventing deaths. Damage: $100,000.
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MARYSVILLE, CALIF. (ANP) Bud Gibbons, local post office employee, was credited last week by Fire Chief William Reilly with saving the lives of 17 trapped in a blazing home for the aged.
Gibbons was working in the post office when fire broke out in a lumber yard across the alley and spread to Ebner house. He dashed into the flaming old rooming house and raced from room to room, awakening the inmates. The occupants had barely enough time to grab a few clothes and escape to the street.
According to Chief Reilly, Gibbons's prompt action undoubtedly prevented wholesale loss of life in the historic rooming house. Total damage was estimated to be $100,000.
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Marysville, Calif.
Event Date
Last Week
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saved the lives of 17 trapped inmates; no loss of life; total damage estimated at $100,000.
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Bud Gibbons, a local post office employee, was working when fire broke out in a lumber yard across the alley and spread to Ebner house, a historic rooming house for the aged. He dashed into the flaming building and raced from room to room, awakening the inmates, who escaped with barely enough time to grab a few clothes.