BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 17, 2022
Rather than waiting for state officials to remove dead trees that pinned tubers under the Fish River in Fort Kent last weekend, relatives of one of the women who nearly drowned took action to remove the trees themselves. Kellie Jandreau nearly lost her life last Sunday afternoon when she and companions struck the fallen trees while floating on inner tubes on the Fish River and were pinned beneath them by rapid water currents. Brothers and retired loggers Gerald and Ronald Jandreau of St. Francis, uncle and father of Kellie Jandreau respectively, were not waiting on the state to take action. Early Saturday, they entered the water. “As we cut pieces we let it all go down river.” The Jandreau brothers were not the only ones who had in mind removing the hazardous trees from the river before state officials could get there. When they arrived Saturday morning the brothers found Andrew Marquis of Marquis Tree Works surveying the trees with the intention of removing them himself.