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Fire toll: Paramedics rush one of the occupants of a burning apartment building to hospital last night after flames and smoke struck the 26-storey facility housing elderly and disabled people
Fire toll: Paramedics rush one of the occupants of a burning apartment building to hospital last night after flames and smoke struck the 26-storey facility housing elderly and disabled people

Fire toll: Paramedics rush one of the occupants of a burning apartment building to hospital last night after flames and smoke struck the 26-storey facility housing elderly and disabled people

Date3/8/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Fire toll: Paramedics rush one of the occupants of a burning apartment building to hospital last night after flames and smoke struck the 26-storey facility housing elderly and disabled people.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000781F
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