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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(...)

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(...)

Date4/10/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 the smoke. Six-foot flames curled out toward neighboring houses for a while elderly persons living nearby wee removed. Residents of the burning house are believed safe. Smoke was visible from lake.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000638F
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