Firefighter Meets Woman He Saved 40 Years Ago

This would be an amazing story by itself - a white firefighter saving a black child forty years ago in a burning building. But now, years and years later, the young child is all grown up and wants to make sure that firefighter knows she is grateful.

A Boston firefighter and the woman he rescued from a devastating blaze as a baby 40 years ago have been reunited. William Carroll, now 71, crawled through the flames on his stomach to rescue Evangeline Harper, then an infant. A photograph of the white firefighter emerging from the burning building, giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a black child, became a symbol of hope during an era of racial upheaval. Only when Harper tracked Carroll down, though, did they finally reconnect, in an emotional meeting last week. “Thank you so much,” she said. “Thank you for remembering me,” he responded. (from The Week)

> Read the full story in The Boston Globe

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