Reserves asleep in the Glendale station house were routed from their beds and a woman and son escaped with slight injuries in leaping from the second floor of their home in Maspeth during two fires that broke out during the past week.

On Monday the shrubbery surrounding the frame building occupied by the Glendale police at Chaffee Street and Catalpa Avenue, took fire and spread rapidly toward the building. Patrolman William Denkert, house duty man, informed Acting Lieutenant Charles Maurer, who sounded the fire alarm, arousing the reserves asleep in the dormitory above.

Armed with shovels and brooms, the reserves attacked the blaze and reinforced by Denkert with the garden hose soon had it under control. It was a lively battle during the ten minutes it was in progress. Investigation developed that a bonfire built by youngsters within the enclosure surrounding the station house ignited dry twigs and shrubbery close by, and when the blaze became too big to combat, the boys fled from the scene.

Mrs. Mary Ruege, forty-seven years, and her son Louis, fourteen years old, found themselves trapped when fire in their home, 2218 Zeidler avenue, Maspeth, broke out last Sunday. They occupy the second floor of the two-story dwelling; the first floor being tenanted by Mr. and Mrs. John Brucke. The latter family was asleep and when aroused by shouts from the street barely had time to get away in safety.

The shouts also awakened Mrs. Ruege. Calling her son, they attempted to run through the hall to the stairs. Finding this and other exits cut off by the flames, the woman and boy jumped from the window. Mr. Ruege was not at home, as he is employed at night work.

Several persons who witnessed mother and son leap ran to their assistance. Patrolman John Flynn of the Elmhurst precinct, on duty at the Maspeth booth, called an ambulance after he had the woman and boy moved to a neighbor’s home. Dr. Zelwin, responding from the Wyckoff Heights Hospital, found both suffering from shock and slight contusions. The fire, which started in the cellar, caused over $4,500 damage.