The Archive · 1929

Telephone Girl Heroine

Woman Stays by Her Job in Hospital Fire San Franciezo, Nov. 18.

Miss Juanita Costenborder, telephone operator, was the heroine ofa fire to-day at the University of California. Hospital.

In spite of the approach of menaeing flames, Miss Costenborder stayed at her post to sound an alarm and start the work of rescue. At last she was forced to jump from a third Hoot window, being caught below unharmed.

Miss Costenborder formerly lived in Manila where her father, W. L.

Costenborder, was former: master sergeant of the Army Air Squadrons station.

room of the hospital and burned a "To-day tarted ix the x-ray section of the building. Patients were removed to other hospitals. There were no deaths. The amount of damage done has not yet been determined.—United Press.

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