| Misc |
- The Fire
It was a cold, snowy & windy day on Friday, February 19, 1965 when Judy Gail
Geldart 14 mouths old lost her life due to a fire at her parent.s home on Logon
Road in Dutch Settlement. She was always known as Gail and her remains are
still at the site of the fire, except for two bones which were found and are buried
at the Church cemetery in Dutch Settlement, Nova Scotia. It was determined that
the cause of the fire was electrical, which had started in the basement. Gail.s
mother, Millicent was able to get, Bruce age 7, Timothy age 5, Deborah age 4 out
of the house and as she was running back into the house to get Eldon from his
crib on the second floor, and while doing so, Timothy ran back into the house and
hid under the bed! Therefore, she had to once again take Timothy to safety, and
it was then that the propane tank that supplied the cook stove and heating the hot
water tank which was located in the basement suddenly exploded, blowing the
side of the house out. Fortunately by this time Timothy and Eldon had been
taken to safety and the old house was burning like kindling wood, but once again
Millicent attempted to enter the burning house this time through the basement
window to reach Gail but was held back by neighbors who knew nothing further
could be done to save the remaining child. Everything was happening so fast, and
unfortunately due to the road conditions the fire trucks were slow in reaching the
burning house. There was no possible way to reach the small child as the whole
house was up in flames and to this day, 2008 Millicent still believes if the
neighbors had not held her back! She would have been able to rescue her wee
daughter Gail! Millicent is still haunted by the screams of her dying daughter!
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1963 - 1965 (1 years)
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