And you complain about your aches and pains at your age?

[Samandiriel]

HOPKINTON, R.I. - An 80-year-old woman rescued her 67-year-old neighbor from an apartment fire, carrying the ailing woman down two flights of stairs.

Madalene Lindill put Grace Brayman's arms around her neck and carried her on her back out of their elderly housing complex Wednesday after Brayman accidentally ignited a fire in her apartment.

Lindill told WJAR-TV there was "nothing to it."

"I'm not a great person," she said. "You just don't think at the time."

Hope Valley-Wyoming Fire Chief Fred Stanley described Lindill as "a small woman." She told him she had served as an auxiliary firefighter in the 1960s in Plainfield, Conn.

"She had to be a spunky little character to do what she did," Stanley said.

Fire officials said the blaze started when Brayman, who was wearing an oxygen mask, lit a cigarette. That caused the mask to ignite, and the fire spread to a chair and carpet.

Brayman, the only person hurt, was released Thursday from a hospital.

Stanley said Lindill would receive a department citation given for acts of heroism.




I would have dropped dead the minute we got outside. Kudos to a spunky little old lady!

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I don't think I could even do that now, never mind when I'm 80. (If I even last that long, which is doubtful. )

 

[dr_mabeuse]

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Fire officials said the blaze started when Brayman, who was wearing an oxygen mask, lit a cigarette.

I love that. Cigarettes and Oxygen Masks: a natural go-together.

 

[English Lady]

Aww God Bless her. Sweet lady.

 

[R. Richard]

"Fire officials said the blaze started when Brayman, who was wearing an oxygen mask, lit a cigarette. That caused the mask to ignite, and the fire spread to a chair and carpet."

"Brayman, the only person hurt, was released Thursday from a hospital."

A noble and heroic act to save her firend. However, considering the fire risk, it might have been better if she had not!

 

[impressive]

I would've let natural selection weed the gene pool if the bitch had been breeding age. How fucking stupid can you get?

 

[Guest]

I would've let natural selection weed the gene pool if the bitch had been breeding age. How fucking stupid can you get?

compassion impster...
some people have reasons for stupidity. who knows what those reasons are...but theres gatta be some reason why she felt the need to blow up her face.
hows this?
she has senile dementia and simply had no clue.
she is addicted to sex and cant help herself post-coital.
what ever the reason...she's hopefully learned a lesson?

 

[cantdog]

A lot of people who now need oh-two got that way by first being addicted to the smokes. It really is a natural pairing.

The first law of human stupidity is that stupid people form a constant proportion of the population, and of any group within it. The same proportion, sigma, of Nobel laureates are stupid as of staff sergeants. The second law states that the proportion sigma is always larger than you think it is.

 

[jfinn]

Fire officials said the blaze started when Brayman, who was wearing an oxygen mask, lit a cigarette. That caused the mask to ignite, and the fire spread to a chair and carpet.

Gives a whole new meaning to the Surgeon General's warning doesn't it.

Jayne

 

[SeaCat]

Kudos to her.
Now my question is this: How can a little old lady walk with a set that big?

Cat