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Snow cushioned their 25-foot fall

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Snow cushioned their 25-foot fall

Date12/24/1975

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Spremo, Boris (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Snow cushioned their 25-foot fall. To escape fire that our early today in her apartment building; on St. Clair Ave. W. and Atlas Ave.; Joyce Williams; 23; broke a window and jumped from the third storey with her 3-mother-old child; Vanessa. They landed in a snowdrift and were not seriously hurt. Thank God for the snow; she said. Six other persons; including two other mothers and babies; also jumped from the third storey.

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000641F

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