Elizabeth Gill, a mother from Atlanta, says she’s grateful to the firefighters who gave her the chance to say a final goodbye to her daughter after she was critically injured in a tragic fire, which later claimed her life. On the fateful night of February 21, 2016, 37-year-old Rachel Thorn’s house in Pharr Manor Apartments caught on fire. Thorn was in the bedroom of her second-floor condo when the fire broke out. By the time the firefighters arrived, the fire had already engulfed the entire building.
Speaking to CBS News, Capt. Chip Newell of Atlanta Fire Station 4, who was on the scene during the night of the fire, reflected on the harrowing rescue. “They were telling us to get out of the building because the roof was going to come in on us. But yes, I remember seeing [Rachel Thorn] in the bedroom.” Gill’s daughter had suffered severe injuries by the time the firefighters managed to rescue her. She was then taken to Grady Memorial Hospital.
Every year in February, Elizabeth Gill holds a luncheon to honor her late daughter and the firefighters who gave her a few last moments with her after the devastating fire. https://t.co/zLfDwxL5h3…