Kathy Fiscus update

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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[pat dee]

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.