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...when firemen arrived Chief Loren E. Crannell was told of the missing child. Chief Crannell put on a smoke mask and ran into the burning building
$90.00 in the Last Two Days
Current total $4,840.00
$160.00 and brought to pass "Thank You"
Thanks to generous contributions from Elizabeth Russo and an anonymous donor, the Historians Podcast 2021 fund drive has reached $4,840. We need to raise $160 more in the next two weeks to reach our $5,000 goal. Your donation now will help us meet or surpass our goal. You may contribute by mail by making out a check to Bob Cudmore and sending to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Or donate online here: https://www.gofundme.com/historians-podcast-2021 You may give anonymously and no donation is too small. Please contribute so The Historians Podcast can keep history alive. Saturday Chit-Chat, hot air if you like and Cosby and Tom Podcast "38 Minutes"
Some weather in The Mohawk Valley Weather today following The new Focus on History Story
Heroes helped Northville family survive 1940 fire
By Bob Cudmore
Saturday, December 18, 2021
Fire that broke out Wednesday, October 2, 1940, in a first floor apartment on Second Street in Northville almost took the lives of the five children of the Rhodes family who were living there.
The oldest was Shirley, born in 1930. She told her mother smoke was coming from one of the bedrooms as she was getting her brothers and sisters up at eight a.m.
Their mother, Esther Rose, got all but one of the children out of the burning building including Shirley, Earl, John and Mary Ann. Three-year old Jimmy was missing.
Esther suffered smoke inhalation. That morning Esther’s husband Arnold was working for the Civilian Conservation Corps in Speculator.
When firemen arrived Chief Loren E. Crannell was told of the missing child. Chief Crannell put on a smoke mask and ran into the burning building where he found Jimmy, who had buried himself in his blanket, rolled out of bed and was up against a wall.
Chief Crannell grabbed another blanket which he pulled over their heads. He crawled out of the building carrying Jimmy. Jimmy suffered smoke inhalation and shock.
Chief Crannell had cuts and bruises and the smoke bothered his throat the rest of his life.
Mary Ann Rhodes Johnson, the youngest member of the family, provided information for this story, “Fire Chief Crannell is truly a hero and the Rhodes family was forever grateful to him.”
Monday, December 20, 2021- Story Behind the Story podcast is an audio version of Saturday’s column on heroes who helped a Northville family survive a 1940 fire. Podcast "6 Minutes"
Years later Jack Sands, Shirley’s husband, purchased a memorial brick with “Fire Chief Loren Crannell Northville NY” engraved on it. The brick was placed in the Brick Memorial Park at the Firemen’s Museum in Hudson, N.Y.
The story of the fire was told in the Northville Northampton Historical Society News Letter. Gail Cramer, the editor, wrote, “I’m proud to say that Fire Chief Loren Crannell was my father.”
The fire may have started from wiring in a bedroom wall. The alarm was turned in by meat market owner Frank Langr whose store adjoined the Rhodes apartment. After the fire he provided groceries and other support.
Living upstairs were Mr. and Mrs. Leon Horton who made it out of the building safely but lost their belongings.
The headline in the Gloversville newspaper stated, “Mother Saves Four, Fire Chief 5th Child From Burning Northville Home.”
After the fire, Jimmy stayed with his grandmother Alida Canfield. His Aunt Rachel Mills was a nurse and lived next door. The rest of the family stayed with Bertha and Clarence Resseguie, their aunt and uncle.
After the fire, Esther and Arnold had two more children, Carol and Joan.
The family then lived in a house on Mechanic Street owned by Arch Dunham until the house was sold in the 1960s.
Others who helped the family included Oscar Chamberlin and his wife who owned a grocery store. Dan and Emily Weaver provided transportation in their car.
The family moved back to Second Street eventually. Arnold had a big garden and the children helped. After the war Arnold worked at Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam. He died in 1965. Esther died in 1978. Mary Ann and Joan are the only Rhodes children alive today.
Jimmy Rhodes served in the U.S. Army then worked at General Electric in Schenectady. He died in 2019 from a heart attack.
His sister Mary Ann Rhodes Johnson said Jimmy had his first heart attack at GE, “He was working on top of a generator when it happened and they had to get a crane to get him down so they could get him to the hospital. (Sounds like he just liked to make things difficult when it came to saving his life.)”
Tomorrow, Sunday, December 19, 2021--Archives #102
March 13, 2016
Neil Yetwin, a history teacher, is author of a book on a War of 1812 hero who became the first Jewish New York State Assemblyman, “To My Son: The Life and War Remembrances of Captain Mordecai Myers.”
Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, December 18, 2021
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS
MORNING TO 7 AM EST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 7
inches. The highest totals will be over the southwest
Adirondacks, extreme northwest Saratoga County and portions of
Washington County.
* WHERE...The southwest Adirondacks excluding Hamilton and Warren
Counties, the Mohawk Valley, the northern portions of the
Capital Region including the Saratoga area, and Washington
County.
* WHEN...From 11 AM Saturday to 7 AM EST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions due to snow covered
roads and reduced vsibilities in the snowfall.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snowfall rates will approach an inch an
hour late this afternoon into the early evening. Sleet may mix
in at times late this afternoon into early this evening across
the Mohawk Valley and northern portions of the Capital Region,
including central and southern Saratoga County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
Mohawk Valley News, Saturday, December 18, 2021
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By Bob Cudmore...when firemen arrived Chief Loren E. Crannell was told of the missing child. Chief Crannell put on a smoke mask and ran into the burning building
$90.00 in the Last Two Days
Current total $4,840.00
$160.00 and brought to pass "Thank You"
Thanks to generous contributions from Elizabeth Russo and an anonymous donor, the Historians Podcast 2021 fund drive has reached $4,840. We need to raise $160 more in the next two weeks to reach our $5,000 goal. Your donation now will help us meet or surpass our goal. You may contribute by mail by making out a check to Bob Cudmore and sending to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Or donate online here: https://www.gofundme.com/historians-podcast-2021 You may give anonymously and no donation is too small. Please contribute so The Historians Podcast can keep history alive. Saturday Chit-Chat, hot air if you like and Cosby and Tom Podcast "38 Minutes"
Some weather in The Mohawk Valley Weather today following The new Focus on History Story
Heroes helped Northville family survive 1940 fire
By Bob Cudmore
Saturday, December 18, 2021
Fire that broke out Wednesday, October 2, 1940, in a first floor apartment on Second Street in Northville almost took the lives of the five children of the Rhodes family who were living there.
The oldest was Shirley, born in 1930. She told her mother smoke was coming from one of the bedrooms as she was getting her brothers and sisters up at eight a.m.
Their mother, Esther Rose, got all but one of the children out of the burning building including Shirley, Earl, John and Mary Ann. Three-year old Jimmy was missing.
Esther suffered smoke inhalation. That morning Esther’s husband Arnold was working for the Civilian Conservation Corps in Speculator.
When firemen arrived Chief Loren E. Crannell was told of the missing child. Chief Crannell put on a smoke mask and ran into the burning building where he found Jimmy, who had buried himself in his blanket, rolled out of bed and was up against a wall.
Chief Crannell grabbed another blanket which he pulled over their heads. He crawled out of the building carrying Jimmy. Jimmy suffered smoke inhalation and shock.
Chief Crannell had cuts and bruises and the smoke bothered his throat the rest of his life.
Mary Ann Rhodes Johnson, the youngest member of the family, provided information for this story, “Fire Chief Crannell is truly a hero and the Rhodes family was forever grateful to him.”
Monday, December 20, 2021- Story Behind the Story podcast is an audio version of Saturday’s column on heroes who helped a Northville family survive a 1940 fire. Podcast "6 Minutes"
Years later Jack Sands, Shirley’s husband, purchased a memorial brick with “Fire Chief Loren Crannell Northville NY” engraved on it. The brick was placed in the Brick Memorial Park at the Firemen’s Museum in Hudson, N.Y.
The story of the fire was told in the Northville Northampton Historical Society News Letter. Gail Cramer, the editor, wrote, “I’m proud to say that Fire Chief Loren Crannell was my father.”
The fire may have started from wiring in a bedroom wall. The alarm was turned in by meat market owner Frank Langr whose store adjoined the Rhodes apartment. After the fire he provided groceries and other support.
Living upstairs were Mr. and Mrs. Leon Horton who made it out of the building safely but lost their belongings.
The headline in the Gloversville newspaper stated, “Mother Saves Four, Fire Chief 5th Child From Burning Northville Home.”
After the fire, Jimmy stayed with his grandmother Alida Canfield. His Aunt Rachel Mills was a nurse and lived next door. The rest of the family stayed with Bertha and Clarence Resseguie, their aunt and uncle.
After the fire, Esther and Arnold had two more children, Carol and Joan.
The family then lived in a house on Mechanic Street owned by Arch Dunham until the house was sold in the 1960s.
Others who helped the family included Oscar Chamberlin and his wife who owned a grocery store. Dan and Emily Weaver provided transportation in their car.
The family moved back to Second Street eventually. Arnold had a big garden and the children helped. After the war Arnold worked at Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam. He died in 1965. Esther died in 1978. Mary Ann and Joan are the only Rhodes children alive today.
Jimmy Rhodes served in the U.S. Army then worked at General Electric in Schenectady. He died in 2019 from a heart attack.
His sister Mary Ann Rhodes Johnson said Jimmy had his first heart attack at GE, “He was working on top of a generator when it happened and they had to get a crane to get him down so they could get him to the hospital. (Sounds like he just liked to make things difficult when it came to saving his life.)”
Tomorrow, Sunday, December 19, 2021--Archives #102
March 13, 2016
Neil Yetwin, a history teacher, is author of a book on a War of 1812 hero who became the first Jewish New York State Assemblyman, “To My Son: The Life and War Remembrances of Captain Mordecai Myers.”
Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, December 18, 2021
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS
MORNING TO 7 AM EST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 7
inches. The highest totals will be over the southwest
Adirondacks, extreme northwest Saratoga County and portions of
Washington County.
* WHERE...The southwest Adirondacks excluding Hamilton and Warren
Counties, the Mohawk Valley, the northern portions of the
Capital Region including the Saratoga area, and Washington
County.
* WHEN...From 11 AM Saturday to 7 AM EST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions due to snow covered
roads and reduced vsibilities in the snowfall.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snowfall rates will approach an inch an
hour late this afternoon into the early evening. Sleet may mix
in at times late this afternoon into early this evening across
the Mohawk Valley and northern portions of the Capital Region,
including central and southern Saratoga County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
Mohawk Valley News, Saturday, December 18, 2021
Daily Gazette
CAPITAL REGION — School districts in the greater area dealt with concerns surrounding school violence and threats made in the…
Canajoharie cultural center recognized for being forward-thinking
During the height of pandemic lockdowns, many community members parked outside the Canajoharie Library to connect to the wireless internet….
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
Amsterdam school day goes well despite nationwide threats of violence
No incidents were reported in the Greater Amsterdam School District Friday, following recent posts...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Gloversville school district received 2 online threats, others impacted by posts
https://www.leaderherald.com/