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Butler receives award
MAURICE L. BUTLER, a member of the D. C. Fire Department assigned to a Georgetown Engine Company, received the Kiwanis International Distinguished Service Award for “unusual courage and rescue coordination in life saving.” The award was presented in recognition and appreciation of his feat in rescuing a mother and three-year-old daughter trapped in the upper floor of a burning building. V Private Butler was one of several firemen dispatched to an early morning alarm where the building was engulfed in flames and smoke. He climbed a porch railing and went from window to window until he could reach the victims. Taking the child, he returned with her to the porch by swinging from the windows. He then helped a member of his crew bridge an area way and rescue the mother.
Butler was praised for his “high degree of ingenuity and judgment” as well as personal risk in performing the rescue. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Butler Sr. of Boston, Va. and is married to the former Carolyn Brown of Sperryville. They have one daughter and reside in Annandale. Butler was a 1960 graduate of Rappahannock County High School. □
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