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18-Month-Old Baby who fell eight storeys from an apartment in Scarborough today is rushed into the Hospital for Sick Children with critical head injur(...)
18-Month-Old Baby who fell eight storeys from an apartment in Scarborough today is rushed into the Hospital for Sick Children with critical head injur(...)

18-Month-Old Baby who fell eight storeys from an apartment in Scarborough today is rushed into the Hospital for Sick Children with critical head injur(...)

Date3/27/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: 18-Month-Old Baby who fell eight storeys from an apartment in Scarborough today is rushed into the Hospital for Sick Children with critical head injuries. Gary O Neill fell through a window onto the sidewalk in the backyard of apartment block owned by Ontario Housing Corporation on Lawrence Ave. E. Baby was taken to Scarborough General; then transferred to Sick Children s. Police closed off all cross routes during the 13-minute trip downtown.
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Waiting for ambulance after he fell seven storeys from an apartment, Guiseppi Curcio lies in construction rubble, his chin cradled by a co-worker. Cur(...)
Waiting for ambulance after he fell seven storeys from an apartment, Guiseppi Curcio lies in construction rubble, his chin cradled by a co-worker. Cur(...)
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Fatal fall: The scaffolding on which two men were working at a Scarborough apartment broke yesterday sending Dominic Testani falling 10 storeys to his death
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7/8/1976
He's chipper. Ross Reardon, 4, who fell from a third-storey bedroom window in his Eglinton Ave. E. apartment, was trussed up in trussed up in Scarboro(...)
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4/9/1981
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8/19/1988
Man falls at Eaton Centre. Vincent Gray, 23, is carried away on a stretcher after falling three storeys in the mall of the Eaton Centre yesterday. He (...)
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4/13/1989
Father of boy, 2 1/2, who fell today from broken window on the eighth floor of a Jane St
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6/29/1976
Rescuers prepare to remove a woman who fell about 21 metres (70 feet) down the Scarborough Bluffs yesterday
Rescuers prepare to remove a woman who fell about 21 metres (70 feet) down the Scarborough Bluffs yesterday
7/24/1988
After an 8-storey fall from the window of an apartment on Lawrence Ave
After an 8-storey fall from the window of an apartment on Lawrence Ave
4/5/1971
Hiker injured in fall. Emergency crews tend to a hiker who lost her footing on a trail behind U of T s Erindale campus yesterday and fell 40 metres do(...)
Hiker injured in fall. Emergency crews tend to a hiker who lost her footing on a trail behind U of T s Erindale campus yesterday and fell 40 metres do(...)
2/18/1995
17-storey fall. Fireman help ambulance workers lift Steven Fairman, 28, of Marion St. into a waiting ambulance. Fairman, who is employed by Reliable W(...)
17-storey fall. Fireman help ambulance workers lift Steven Fairman, 28, of Marion St. into a waiting ambulance. Fairman, who is employed by Reliable W(...)
5/30/1979
'Very Lucky': Police say soft ground below a third-storey window may have saved the life of Kayla Boudreault, who suffered broken bones in yesterday's fall
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