June 30, 2024
At Sunday’s ceremony, Jeanne Gauruder of Bethel, Conn., holds photos of her brother-in-law Michael Gauruder she never met and his girlfriend Janet Haehl, who both perished in the Gulliver’s fire on June 30, 1974.
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The Gulliver’s fire
Two communities remember a tragedy five decades later
The Gulliver’s nightclub fire of June 30, 1974 is ingrained in the psyche of most Port Chester residents who were alive at least 50 years ago, and particularly anyone related to the Port Chester Fire Department. For every volunteer firefighter celebrating 50 or more years with the department, it is the incident they recall most vividly and horrifically so many years later.
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