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Victim rescued. Larry Zimmerman, trapped for almost two hours between an elevator and its shaft in an Adelaide St. W. building today is carried out by(...)
Victim rescued. Larry Zimmerman, trapped for almost two hours between an elevator and its shaft in an Adelaide St. W. building today is carried out by(...)

Victim rescued. Larry Zimmerman, trapped for almost two hours between an elevator and its shaft in an Adelaide St. W. building today is carried out by(...)

Date5/16/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Victim rescued. Larry Zimmerman; trapped for almost two hours between an elevator and its shaft in an Adelaide St. W. building today is carried out by rescuers. Witnesses said his legs were caught in a gap between the elevator and the corridor floor in the building by his family. [Incomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000909F
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Accident scene: Woman survived elevator shaft fall from top floor to basement
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11/13/1979
Firm wiped out. It took firemen and 13 rigs about two hours to bring this blaze under control early today, but not before flames burned out D and M Bu(...)
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4/23/1979
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
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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Image shows three firefighters working on scene while fire is destroying houses.
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Rescued from sabotaged train, youngster clings with his arms around shoulders of Etobicoke fireman James Grant, as he is carried to safety from scene (...)
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Dog rescued: A dog belonging to one of the families involved in the east Toronto to fire is carried to safety
Dog rescued: A dog belonging to one of the families involved in the east Toronto to fire is carried to safety
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Flames soar at factory blaze. It took about 50 firefighters more than three hours to control a fire at an abandoned tire factory on Bloor St. W., west(...)
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