Kathy’s mother Alice rushed to the scene and could hear Kathy’s faint calls from deep in the well. In one of the profound ironies surrounding this case, Kathy’s father, David Fiscus, worked for a water company, and had just returned from giving testimony before a legislative committee in support of a law to require the cementing of unused wells. The well’s wooden cover had recently been dislodged by a plow or mower. That well had been drilled in 1904 to access water from the Raymond Aquifer to irrigate nearby citrus trees, but it had now passed into disuse. She had fallen down an abandoned water well whose entrance was concealed by weeds. On the afternoon of Apshe was playing in a field in the Los Angeles County community of San Marino with her sister and a cousin when she suddenly disappeared. Kathryn Ann Fiscus was born on Augsix days after Japan surrendered to officially end World War II. And the story ends in South San Diego County where the child is laid to rest at Glen Abbey Memorial Park in Bonita. An adorable three year old girl fell into a dry, abandoned well in a Los Angeles suburb and despite the heroic efforts of an army of frantic volunteers, died in the well medium of television, and for three awful days it captivated much of the world. It had all of the elements of an unspeakably wrenching tragedy.
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