My post correcting the recent obituary on a former Pasadena firefighter who falsely claimed that he rescued Kathy Fiscus brought this response from Clyde Harp, one of the five men who helped dig her out in 1949:
Thank for clearing up the record.
I was there as one of the rescuers digging through dirt, quicksand, and water 94′ down the rescue shaft and took turns with Bill Yancey, “Whitey” Blickensderfer, A. O. Kelly, and Herb Herpel and a few others. I was the youngest at age 25.
On my third trip down I crawled through the small, short tunnel we’d dug over to the well, I made the first cut into the well and found Kathy Fiscus’ body. Water gushed out so I had to be hauled up quick. The doctor went down after the water was pumped out and then Bill Yancey retrieved her. That memory is as fresh 59 years later as it was those nearly 3 days and nights.
Thanks – Clyde Harp
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I was 8 years old at the time of this tragidy. i had a younger sister named Kathy. I recall that Johnny of Phillip Morris fame offered to be lowered down the well shaft to save the little girl.
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I was almost 10 yrs old when Kathy died. I am now 69 and have never forgotten the horrible ordel. God bless the family of trhis little beloved child of God.
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In Des Moines, Iowa, it just seemed like everyone was praying day after day evening after evening, staying close to radios hoping against hope, which dimmed as time went on. How our hearts were let down when the news was transmitted over the radio waves that little Kathy Fiscus had not survived.
What has happened to her family?.
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