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Fire leaves McCallum family homeless in McKillop
Susan H u n d e r t m a r k
It wasn't until his alarm system
started to beep that Carl McCallum
looked out his workshop window
last Tuesday around 1:45 p.m. to
see the smoke billowing out of his
house in McKillop.
"The phone must have shorted out
in the house with the fire and the
alarm system started beeping. I saw
the smoke, ran up to the house and
it was just black everywhere. I
couldn't see where the flames were -
just smoke," he says of the fire that
ended up gutting his house.
Seaforth firefighters responded to
the call on Hullett-McKillop Road
next door to Family Paradise
Campground and fought the fire all
afternoon and into the evening,
returning to the Seaforth fire hall
around 8:30 p.m.
Grey firefighters were also called
to the scene to help supply water in
tanker trucks.
"There were flames coming out
the front room facing the road when
we arrived," says Huron East Fire
Chief Marty Bedard.
Bedard says that while the cause
and where the fire began are not yet
clear, the fire -
which destroyed 7
the house and all
of its contents -
was "stubborn,"
getting into the
attic and between
the walls.
"It was a reno-
vated mobile
home with a two
to three-foot
crawlspace and
the fire spread
quickly under-
neath," says Bedard.
With McCallum and the family
Submitted photo
Seaforth firefighters battle a house fire last Tuesday afternoon on the Hullett-
McKillop Road.
dog in the workshop behind the
house, his wife
\ Tabb at work and
their children at
school, no one was
in the house at
the time of the
fire.
"Tabb's sister
came over and
sifted through the
rumble and came
up with a few
photo albums that
were frozen
together and
It's incredible how
wonderful every-
one's been. I
wouldn't want to live
anywhere else,' --
Carl McCallum
burned at the edges but I think
there may be some photos that can
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be saved. We lost a lot of things
with sentimental value," says
McCallum. -
He adds that a wedding picture
signed by all the guests will be diffi-
cult to replace but they're hoping to
track down the guests to re-sign a
replacement photo.
McCallum says friends and neigh-
bours have been very generous pro-
viding a pick-up truckload of cloth-
ing, bedding and food for his home-
less family currently staying with
the neighbours at Family, Paradise.
"It's been incredible how wonder-
ful everyone's been. I wouldn't want
to live anywhere else," says
McCallum.
He also praises the firefighters
who fought the blaze in extreme
cold and wind.
"They were just covered in ice and
were wet and they just kept at it,"
he says.
McCallum says local businesses
have also been providing donations
of cash, gift cards, clothing and
food.
As well, the Seaforth Optimist
Club, of which the McCallums are
members, held a bowling tourna-
ment with clubs in Clinton and
Brussels and donated the proceeds
to the McCallums.
"Everything from the bowling to
the hotdogs and food sold went to
the family," says Optimist member
Lisa Harper. "We're going to do
whatever we can to help out."
McCallum says he hopes the fami-
ly can rebuild in the same location.
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