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Smoke pours from window of the Ford Hotel yesterday as fireman on hydraulic ladder leans forward to rescue guest perched on seventh-floor window ledge(...)
Smoke pours from window of the Ford Hotel yesterday as fireman on hydraulic ladder leans forward to rescue guest perched on seventh-floor window ledge(...)

Smoke pours from window of the Ford Hotel yesterday as fireman on hydraulic ladder leans forward to rescue guest perched on seventh-floor window ledge(...)

Date5/11/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Smoke pours from window of the Ford Hotel yesterday as fireman on hydraulic ladder leans forward to rescue guest perched on seventh-floor window ledge. Fire; which started in a wastepaper basket; killed one man and injured three others; one of them seriously. Dead is Edwin Paterson; 77; a 10-year guest at hotel.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000354F
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