J.C. Warren of the Warren Transfer Company, 207 West Fourth street, had almost as much excitement during the fires that kept Charlotte awake Thursday morning as did the firemen.
Warren played a heroic role at the Selwyn hotel at 1 o’clock by carrying a woman to safety who had fainted in her room on the second floor of the hotel adjoining the one in which the fire originated and who might have been overlooked had Mr. Warren not realized her peril and carried her down to safety.
Mr. Warren was close behind Charles Gardner when he ran up and rescued a young woman from her room in which the fire originated. Having seen that the occupant of that room was safe, Mr. Warren looked in a nearby room on the second floor.
When he threw the door of the room open he found a man, blinded by smoke, groping around the room, trying to find the door. A woman lay across the bed apparently in a stupor. Warren led the man out into the hallway and directed him toward the stairway. He placed a quilt around the scantily clad woman on the bed and rushed for the stairway.
He placed the rescued woman in a comfortable position in the lobby and modestly retired—not, however, before her husband had come over and thanked him heartily for his timely aid in rescuing him and his wife from a perilous situation.
Warren and his transfer company are unofficial adjuncts of the fire department and according to Chief Mack Wallace and his men, did yeoman service in more ways than one. Before this he has helped the department in emergencies. Wednesday night he offered his five big trucks and 10 men of the transfer staff.
When a fire alarm came in from the corner of Tenth and Myers streets at 3 o’clock Thursday morning, Jim and two of his trucks were called upon by Chief Mack Wallace and hauled two installments of hose line there.
From The Charlotte News, Feb. 4, 1922
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