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when the rain-swollen storm yesterday afternoon, Dundas St

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when the rain-swollen storm yesterday afternoon, Dundas St

Date8/7/1968

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Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022 (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: when the rain-swollen storm yesterday afternoon; Dundas St. viaduct (left) as bystanders on shore watch helplessly. At right; the long rescue operation begins as fireman Ken Nicoll wearing life preserver and rescue lines inches along first makeshift bridge made of ladders. [Incomplete]

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