Heroine of Whitechapel fire drama . Mary Levey , aged 11 , was the heroine of a fire in high street , Whitechapel , in the night . She was alone in the building asleep when she woke to find her room filled with smoke . She was found clinging to the window ledge of a bedroom on the third floor of the building in her nightclothes , and was rescued by firemen . Mary Levy with her mother as she had her breakfast . 26 February 1932 30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties