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BROOKLYN, NY: Dec. 2, 1908 - A blaze broke out in a two-story house at 96 Pine St., trapping a mother and her young daughter. The first-due unit arrived and initiated a punishing search in hot, thick smoke. Captain Abraham Turner and Fireman Thomas Smith of Engine 136 found the mother and child and both were removed to safety. The gleeful child hugged Smith tightly around the neck until she realized her mother was dead. The child fainted and eventually was revived by an ambulance surgeon who also treated the burns suffered by both firemen.