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Overcome by smoke inhalation while fighting a fire in a North York townhouse that forced six persons to flee their home, fireman Frank Hall is assiste(...)
Overcome by smoke inhalation while fighting a fire in a North York townhouse that forced six persons to flee their home, fireman Frank Hall is assiste(...)

Overcome by smoke inhalation while fighting a fire in a North York townhouse that forced six persons to flee their home, fireman Frank Hall is assiste(...)

Date4/30/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Overcome by smoke inhalation while fighting a fire in a North York townhouse that forced six persons to flee their home; fireman Frank Hall is assisted by an ambulance driver and Rick Strong; a fellow fireman. Two women; one 75 and the other crippled; are in North York General Hospital; being treated for burns.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000381F
Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday, as Herbert Green, a neighbor, shows. M(...)
Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday, as Herbert Green, a neighbor, shows. M(...)
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