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Dump site blast: Windows were blown out of a wooden building at the Brock West landfill site in Pickering yesterday after an explosion blamed on a build-up of methane gas
Dump site blast: Windows were blown out of a wooden building at the Brock West landfill site in Pickering yesterday after an explosion blamed on a build-up of methane gas

Dump site blast: Windows were blown out of a wooden building at the Brock West landfill site in Pickering yesterday after an explosion blamed on a build-up of methane gas

Date2/15/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Dump site blast: Windows were blown out of a wooden building at the Brock West landfill site in Pickering yesterday after an explosion blamed on a build-up of methane gas.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0006332F
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