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Heroes in Gear Save Child From House Fire in Kansas
Brittain and Ramsdell, Lawrence officers riding with no working radios, entered a burning multiroom home to reach a boy trapped by dense smoke and flames. They fought through heat and fear, recovered the child, and emerged with smoke inhalation injuries but no fatalities. The fire burned seven hours. the cause remains undetermined. The mother, stunned, survived.
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Weide
Lawrence
Brittain
Ramsdell
Ske
Hell
Mom
Skillman
Kansas State Fire Marshal’s
Garnett