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A 4-Year-old Boy using a lighted candle to hunt under his bed for a missing shoe started the fast-spreading fire that did $6,000 damage and left the n(...)
A 4-Year-old Boy using a lighted candle to hunt under his bed for a missing shoe started the fast-spreading fire that did $6,000 damage and left the n(...)

A 4-Year-old Boy using a lighted candle to hunt under his bed for a missing shoe started the fast-spreading fire that did $6,000 damage and left the n(...)

Date11/6/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: A 4-Year-old Boy using a lighted candle to hunt under his bed for a missing shoe started the fast-spreading fire that did $6;000 damage and left the nine members of his family homeless. Firemen fighting the blaze; on Salem Ave. near Bloor St. W.; say they were amazed there was no loss of life.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000626F
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