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Boston firefighter reunites with children grabbed from burning home 45 years ago
Firefighter Joseph Gilmore, with two children in his arms, was captured in 1978 Boston Globe photo
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A man who was rescued from a burning home when he was a young boy got to thank the Boston firefighter who saved his life for the first time in a reunion that was decades in the making.
On Dec. 26, 1978, firefighter Joseph Gilmore came to the rescue of 3-year-old Umar Fox and his 9-year-old sister, Lisa, when he carried them to safety out of a burning home.
Boston Globe photographer George Rizer captured the moments Gilmore carried the siblings out of the house.
