The Firefighter's Secret
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[MUSIC] On November 25th, 2020, it was the day before Thanksgiving. [BLANK_AUDIO] I received the phone call shortly after four o'clock from the Mount Morris Police Chief. [BLANK_AUDIO] And he asked me kind of, frankly, is anybody at my house. And I said, my daughter Melissa is. [MUSIC] And so there's a fire. [MUSIC] And it's bad. [MUSIC] My sister Melissa, she was nine months pregnant, about to have a baby in two days. [MUSIC] What do you remember from November 25th, 2020? It was my 17th birthday. My birthday is November 25th. Me and my mom were at a store. We're picking out a cake and we finally got home. And my brother Carl frantically is calling my mom. Have you heard from Melissa? Have you heard from Melissa? And we're like, no, why? Carl said the neighbor called and he said the house is on fire. [BLANK_AUDIO] So at that point, my heart just sank because we were not sure if Melissa was home or not. [MUSIC] I just wanted them both to be okay. And all I could think was please just have one of them, at least one of them make it through the night. [MUSIC] When everyone said they didn't know where she was and they couldn't hear from her, I knew, I knew. Just had that gut feeling that she was gone for a huge tragedy like that to occur. The day before Thanksgiving, on Julia's birthday, right before the baby was to be born, it was just so much. [MUSIC] When I arrived at the scene, I was told the victim was found laying on the floor in front of the stove. Melissa Lamish was a 27 year old EMT. We're trying to figure out why there's a fire in the kitchen. We couldn't tell if it was intentional or accidental. There was all kinds of possibilities running through our heads. But we didn't know what happened to her. [MUSIC] My daughter, Melissa, she was very thoughtful. And that's why she got into being a paramedic. She wanted to help people. [MUSIC] When Melissa first told me she was pregnant, she told me a couple things about the day.
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A young woman is found dead in her burning home. She’d been involved with a firefighter– could he have set a fire to cover her murder? Nikki Battiste reports.