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Security system: The Dicon 9000 security system protects homeowners from break-ins, fire and medical emergencies
Security system: The Dicon 9000 security system protects homeowners from break-ins, fire and medical emergencies

Security system: The Dicon 9000 security system protects homeowners from break-ins, fire and medical emergencies

Date6/22/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: Security system: The Dicon 9000 security system protects homeowners from break-ins; fire and medical emergencies.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0120200F
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Joe Wilson Sonitrol Security Systems
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Loot recovered from Sutton Break-ins, Constable John Sheldon (left) and Constable Bill Claughton of York Region police check over some of the $30,000 (...)
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Helpful helmet: The Emergency Fire Hood provides protection from smoke and flames
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Practising for an emergency. Miri Feguson, 9, left, and her 7-year-old sister, Kyla, practise how to escape if their Mississauga home caught fire yest(...)
Practising for an emergency. Miri Feguson, 9, left, and her 7-year-old sister, Kyla, practise how to escape if their Mississauga home caught fire yest(...)
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24-hour guard: Jim Karmally, operations supervisor at ADT Security Systems, monitors his firm's computerized alarm system
24-hour guard: Jim Karmally, operations supervisor at ADT Security Systems, monitors his firm's computerized alarm system
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New system: In the interests of school-bus safety, entrepreneur Gary Barwick has developed a lap belt that has a strap over each shoulder
New system: In the interests of school-bus safety, entrepreneur Gary Barwick has developed a lap belt that has a strap over each shoulder
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