- Dates
- 1999-12-03 – 2000-03
- Kind
- Award
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- fireemergency-managementcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
After a December 3, 1999 house fire, 15-year-old Heather Cary woke and helped her three younger sisters escape through a second-story window, then alerted her father and called the fire department. Sheriff George Lasater presented her with a Life Saving Award at a Beaver Island Community School assembly.
Evidence limits
The article is a newspaper account based partly on an outside report; it does not provide a fire-investigation file or independent award record.
Sources
- Reports that 15-year-old Heather Cary woke her three sisters during a December 3 house fire, helped them out a second-story window, woke her father, called the fire department, and later received Sheriff George Lasater’s Life Saving Award at BICS. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2000-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the rescue and award report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2000-03_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Heather Cary receives a Sheriff’s Life Saving Award after rescuing her sisters from a house fire in 1999”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/heather-cary-lifesaving-award-1999/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 2000, “Young Lifesaver Honored.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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