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After escaping a rooming-house fire that killed five persons, Bernice Acker and Terry Gillis sit in Wellesley Hospital awaiting examination. Mrs. Acke(...)
After escaping a rooming-house fire that killed five persons, Bernice Acker and Terry Gillis sit in Wellesley Hospital awaiting examination. Mrs. Acke(...)

After escaping a rooming-house fire that killed five persons, Bernice Acker and Terry Gillis sit in Wellesley Hospital awaiting examination. Mrs. Acke(...)

Date3/7/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: After escaping a rooming-house fire that killed five persons; Bernice Acker and Terry Gillis sit in Wellesley Hospital awaiting examination. Mrs. Acker reported: I lost everything in there-but my husband is all right.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000633F
Fire victim. Two men were rushed to hospital last night, suffering from burns and smoke inhalation, after a rooming house fire on Boston Ave. Their in(...)
Fire victim. Two men were rushed to hospital last night, suffering from burns and smoke inhalation, after a rooming house fire on Boston Ave. Their in(...)
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Firefighers run with one of the victims to an ambulance after a morning house fire killed two people and put five others in hospital. Arson is suspect(...)
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3/9/1989
In the inquest into a March rooming house fire in which five persons were killed, testimony was heard from (left to right) Philip Roth, president of o(...)
In the inquest into a March rooming house fire in which five persons were killed, testimony was heard from (left to right) Philip Roth, president of o(...)
6/4/1974
Fire strikes rooming house. Firemen fighting a blaze today on the top floor of a three-storey rooming-house on Pembroke St. carry up a fan to pull out(...)
Fire strikes rooming house. Firemen fighting a blaze today on the top floor of a three-storey rooming-house on Pembroke St. carry up a fan to pull out(...)
4/10/1975
Rooming house fire injures 4. An emergency crew helps one of four people injured yesterday in a fire on Homewood Ave. In the Jarvis St.-Bloor St. E. a(...)
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1/28/1992
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In the inquest into a March rooming house fir ein which five persons were killed, testimony was heard from (left to right) Philip Roth, president of one of five companies that owned the houses, Joseph Kosoy, who got the rent from them, and Gerry Goldenberg, who did the leasing and never was in either house
6/4/1974
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(...)
5/14/1974
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(...)
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East End Rooming House
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3/22/1993
Shari Thompson cradles three of her six kittens as she stands outside a burning rooming house on Melbourne Ave
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Etobicoke rooming house
Etobicoke rooming house
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Five families in backyard of small house they share after they were burned out of their Cobalt homes by Monday s fire
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