"She was my treasure": Libby's grandfather, who perished in a fire in the Galilee, broke up
Hours before the fire that led to the tragedy in Adama, Avraham Philosoph spoke with his daughter Little, Libby's three-year-old mother from Petah Tikva.
"I asked where you were, she said they were in an unregulated ecological settlement," he said.
"Suddenly there was a huge explosion, there was a very large flame, and that's it. They couldn't save it."
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19/04/2022
Tuesday, 19 April, 2022, 08:39 Updated: 08:55
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In the video: The scene of the fire that broke out in a house in an ecological community in the Galilee (Photo: Fire and Rescue)
Libby's grandfather, the toddler who perished last night (Monday) in a fire, said goodbye to her in pain.
"She's my lovely girl, she was my treasure," Avraham Philosoph said in an interview with 103FM.
He added that hours before the disaster he corresponded with her mother, Little.
"I asked where you were, she said they were in an unregulated ecological locality."
According to him, the family used to travel a lot, "not in places we know, not in hotels, but in nature, in camping."
The parents, Little and Tomer, adopted Libby and Alon, her older brother.
"Both are on the autistic continuum but in high functioning," he noted.
On the morning of the deadly fire Mother Little and daughter Libby slept, and Father Tomer was in the shower.
"Suddenly there was a huge explosion, there was a very big flame, and that's it," he said.
The father came out of the shower, threw his son out the window and thus managed to save him.
"There's a sputtering window of this whole, unexplained structure," he said.
The boy, Alon, is staying at his uncle's house while his parents are still hospitalized.
"That he would not see his parents bandaged," the philosopher explained, "the father is currently undergoing plastic surgery and there could be all kinds of transplants, and there it is more complicated."
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"They could not save her," a philosopher said in tears about his granddaughter.
"Yesterday the parents were flown to Ziv Hospital and Rambam, the mother has already regained consciousness and she is not breathing, she still needs bandages, she was not allowed to be approached due to the sterility.
I have not seen her yet, "he said.
"Failed to save her."
Libby, the toddler who perished in the fire (Photo: screenshot, from Facebook)
Libby Kalich, a three-year-old from Petah Tikva, perished in a fire in a wooden house in Adma, an ecological village in the Western Galilee.
Her mother Little and her father Tomer were seriously and moderately injured and evacuated to hospitals, her brother Alon survived.
The circumstances of the fire are still under investigation, the owner of the B&B is being investigated on suspicion of causing death by negligence.
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