They laid Ernest down on the snow with just his underwear left on him and a necklace with an Our Lady of Mt Carmel scapular, which was blessed by Ernest’s Aunts Sylvains Babineau daughters (Catholic Nuns) of the Sisters of the Holy family order in Montreal, which was given to him by his mother Claudia Babineau.
Ernest Babineau brothers Philip, Peter and Paul and other family members living in Crombie Settlement surrounded him in support until the ambulance arrived.
With a 1% survival chance and over 50% of my father, Ernest Babineau body, burnt Third degree deep, we all prayed.
His holding his own ground” the Physicians told us over and over for many months while the support of the machines and tubes followed him while he laid in an induced coma.
After more than six months bouncing up and down from ICU to the Burn Units between life and death. Ernest Babineau walked out the Saint John Hospital in New Brunswick, on his own two feet with no oxygen tanks.

He is currently blinded since the fire.
RIP “Sylvester the cat” dead in the fire, he was a part of the family and stay at the home of Ernest and Nowella (Gladys) because of the Grandchildren loved him, when Ernest’s son Trevor Babineau moved out.