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Burning Gold? One project would recover original components by melting tires in oven, a controlled version of what happened at the Hagersville fire last February
Burning Gold? One project would recover original components by melting tires in oven, a controlled version of what happened at the Hagersville fire last February

Burning Gold? One project would recover original components by melting tires in oven, a controlled version of what happened at the Hagersville fire last February

Date11/17/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Burning Gold? One project would recover original components by melting tires in oven, a controlled version of what happened at the Hagersville fire last February.
Country:Canada
Province or state:Ontario
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000545F
War zone: Water spews over mountain of tires as weary firefighter patrols grim scene in Hagersville
War zone: Water spews over mountain of tires as weary firefighter patrols grim scene in Hagersville
2/22/1990
Dense Cloud: Billowing smoke and flames engulf a storage shed at dump where tires have been burning 14 days despite a herculean effort to douse the blaze
Dense Cloud: Billowing smoke and flames engulf a storage shed at dump where tires have been burning 14 days despite a herculean effort to douse the blaze
2/22/1990
Firefighters try in vain yesterday to quench the blaze that s been burning out of control near Hagersville since Monday
Firefighters try in vain yesterday to quench the blaze that s been burning out of control near Hagersville since Monday
2/13/1990
Wrecking yard catches fire. Firemen turn their nozzles on a 30-metre (100-foot) pile of tires that caught fire yesterday and sent up a large plume of (...)
Wrecking yard catches fire. Firemen turn their nozzles on a 30-metre (100-foot) pile of tires that caught fire yesterday and sent up a large plume of (...)
7/11/1986
Fed by rubber tires, flames belch from $900,000 warehouse-factory fire on Liberty St
Fed by rubber tires, flames belch from $900,000 warehouse-factory fire on Liberty St
5/3/1978
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
3/8/1992
A charred trucks sits surrounded by smouldering tires
A charred trucks sits surrounded by smouldering tires
2/13/1990
Blazing tires spew toxic smoke
Blazing tires spew toxic smoke
2/13/1990
A fire? So what. Elderly resident of a Jarvis St. apartment building appears resigned as a firefighters douses a burning chesterfield dragged from the(...)
A fire? So what. Elderly resident of a Jarvis St. apartment building appears resigned as a firefighters douses a burning chesterfield dragged from the(...)
11/2/1980
Peanuts roasted in fire. Firefighters battle a $200,000 fire yesterday at Canada Packers' nut products manufacturing plant on Front St. E. An oven use(...)
Peanuts roasted in fire. Firefighters battle a $200,000 fire yesterday at Canada Packers' nut products manufacturing plant on Front St. E. An oven use(...)
10/8/1987
Garland president Russ Prowse checks oven components on assembly line.
Garland president Russ Prowse checks oven components on assembly line.
10/12/1978
Fighting to save roof. Crews work on the burning roof of a two-storey home on Balfour Ave. at Danforth Ave. and Main St. yesterday. Fire officials are(...)
Fighting to save roof. Crews work on the burning roof of a two-storey home on Balfour Ave. at Danforth Ave. and Main St. yesterday. Fire officials are(...)
7/12/1990