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Ice-sheathed ruins are all that remain of four stores and 10 offices above them, destroyed Saturday in a $700,000 blaze that swept part of central bus(...)
Ice-sheathed ruins are all that remain of four stores and 10 offices above them, destroyed Saturday in a $700,000 blaze that swept part of central bus(...)

Ice-sheathed ruins are all that remain of four stores and 10 offices above them, destroyed Saturday in a $700,000 blaze that swept part of central bus(...)

Date3/5/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ice-sheathed ruins are all that remain of four stores and 10 offices above them; destroyed Saturday in a $700;000 blaze that swept part of central business block in Orillia. Seventy firemen from Orillia; three surrounding townships and the Ontario Fire College at Gravenhurst battled 12 hours in zero weather to keep flames from surrounding. Fire is reported to have started near a basement fuse box.
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000367F