Summerseat on February 18. He had been talking to her on FaceTime when her house collapsed at around 9.20pm.They had not long started the video call when Hazel’s screen went black.Thinking nothing of it, Tony imagined her phone battery had probably gone flat.
It wasn’t until he received a frantic phone call from a friend that he learned Hazel had been caught up in a “huge explosion”.
The 63-year-old, who lives in Appleby, Cumbria, broke down in tears as he recalled driving to Summerseat.When he arrived, it was a scene of devastation.Although her house had been reduced to rubble, Tony clung to the hope that Hazel would be pulled from the wreckage alive.But at around 3.30am, a police sergeant told him they had recovered a body.
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