Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: June 19, 2003
• Invested on: June 25, 2004

On June 30, 2002, George Daix attempted to save a twenty-month-old girl from a burning house in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. When he discovered that a neighbour's house was on fire, Mr. Daix rushed to the scene, awakened the two babysitters and instructed them to escape with the small boy at their side. Informed that a toddler was in a second-floor bedroom, he then raced up the stairs, but was driven out by the thick, toxic smoke that filled the hallway. Although suffering from smoke inhalation, Mr. Daix made two more attempts to reach the child but was forced out each time by the intense smoke. Despite bursting lungs, he managed on his fourth try to kick open the child's bedroom door before being driven out again just as emergency crews arrived. The little girl was rescued, unharmed, by a firefighter.