The sound of her granddaughter’s voice was the strongest she had ever heard it, as the startled child alerted everyone within earshot to the imminent danger that would change their lives forever.
Sixty-two-year-old Jean Ellis said she was asleep when her granddaughter rushed in to tell her that fire was engulfing the house in early March of this year.
The three-bedroom board dwelling that was occupied by Ellis and her two daughters burned to the ground after an unextinguished coal stove fell on to a pile of board.
“I was at home with a friend, my granddaughter and grandson. Somebody left the coal pot (burning) and it look like the it drop on some board that was under the cellar and catch fire, and everything burn up.”