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Rescuers at work

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Rescuers at work

Date3/21/1983

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Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Wilkes, Jim (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Rescuers at work: Firefighter Ken Brunton grabs a safety line after hooking towlines to Sebert Williams (circled); who was nearly buried alive when the bottom vents of a Merton St. salt bin were opened yesterday. Williams (right); a 50-year-old father of six; waves at top of bin after rescue to show he is all right. With him is another firefighter-rescuer; Alex Andrechuk.

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Rescuers at work

Rescuers at work

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Blast victim: Rescuers prepare to remove the body of a man killed in an Etobicoke house explosion yesterday

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