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Found Unconscious on the 25th floor of the Harbour Castle Hotel last night after an arsonist had set a fire there, Debbie Dygas, 25, of the hotel staf(...)
Found Unconscious on the 25th floor of the Harbour Castle Hotel last night after an arsonist had set a fire there, Debbie Dygas, 25, of the hotel staf(...)

Found Unconscious on the 25th floor of the Harbour Castle Hotel last night after an arsonist had set a fire there, Debbie Dygas, 25, of the hotel staf(...)

Date1/28/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Found Unconscious on the 25th floor of the Harbour Castle Hotel last night after an arsonist had set a fire there; Debbie Dygas; 25; of the hotel staff is carried out by ambulance attendants. The arsonist set six fires; one of which did $30;000 damage and sent four people to hospital. He has not been found.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000647F
Arsonist s victims: Fire captain James Coles, left, breathes oxygen after being overcome by smoke while fighting fires set by an arsonist at the Harbour Castle Hilton last night
Arsonist s victims: Fire captain James Coles, left, breathes oxygen after being overcome by smoke while fighting fires set by an arsonist at the Harbour Castle Hilton last night
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A hose plays on the Wentworth Arms Hotel in downtown Hamilton during a fire Christmas night in which at least six people were killed. A 26-year-old ma(...)
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Guard dogs have joined Metro Police and armed secuirty guards in the Harbour Castle Hotel to keep an arsonist from striking again. As the dogs arrived(...)
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Child rescued from fire. A little boy is carried to safety last night and 100 were evacuated after a candle started a $100,000 fire in a eight-storey Parkdale apartment building
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Trapped: Woman gasps for fresh air as she waits desperately to be rescued from 3-alarm fire at downtown Hotel Plaza II
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