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Lost all in blaze
Lost all in blaze

Lost all in blaze

Date1/4/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: Lost all in blaze: Peter Morrow; his wife; Margaret; and two children; Victor; 4; and Sarah; 2; rest in a police cruiser after escaping a $50;000 fire in their rented High Park home. They credited their pet dog; Samson; with saving them and three other family members.
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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_0000722F
13 houses lost. Flames leap from house to house after a blaze broke out at a Mississauga construction site today. Damage to 13 houses was estimated at(...)
13 houses lost. Flames leap from house to house after a blaze broke out at a Mississauga construction site today. Damage to 13 houses was estimated at(...)
5/14/1981
All that's left of Centre Island bumper-car ride after yesterday s $300,000 blaze
All that's left of Centre Island bumper-car ride after yesterday s $300,000 blaze
5/12/1979
Ice-sheathed ruins are all that remain of four stores and 10 offices above them, destroyed Saturday in a $700,000 blaze that swept part of central bus(...)
Ice-sheathed ruins are all that remain of four stores and 10 offices above them, destroyed Saturday in a $700,000 blaze that swept part of central bus(...)
3/5/1972
$45,000 blaze. Traffic was tied up for nearly two hours on Queen St. E. near Parliament St. during lunch hour yesterday as firemen fought a blaze in a(...)
$45,000 blaze. Traffic was tied up for nearly two hours on Queen St. E. near Parliament St. during lunch hour yesterday as firemen fought a blaze in a(...)
10/11/1979
Messy job: Firefighters clean up debris yesterday following early-morning three-alarm blaze in Woolworth's store
Messy job: Firefighters clean up debris yesterday following early-morning three-alarm blaze in Woolworth's store
2/4/1978
Firemen, above, battle one of the several blazes that have hit Metro over the past month
Firemen, above, battle one of the several blazes that have hit Metro over the past month
5/4/1978
Fireman is revived with whiff of oxygen after being overcome while battling apartment building blaze
Fireman is revived with whiff of oxygen after being overcome while battling apartment building blaze
5/4/1978
Stubborn blaze
Stubborn blaze
6/10/1980
Gutted. Fifteen fire engines and their crews fought a morning blaze yesterday that left the 80-year-old Lansdowne Tavern in Toronto's west end a write(...)
Gutted. Fifteen fire engines and their crews fought a morning blaze yesterday that left the 80-year-old Lansdowne Tavern in Toronto's west end a write(...)
1/3/1980
Where there's smoke . . . A two-alarm blaze at the Broadview House hotel early this morning brought firefighters on the run. No one was injured in the(...)
Where there's smoke . . . A two-alarm blaze at the Broadview House hotel early this morning brought firefighters on the run. No one was injured in the(...)
9/30/1981
Death blaze. One man killed and another seriously injured in a fire early today at an abandoned house on Broadview Ave. Firefighters had to use chains(...)
Death blaze. One man killed and another seriously injured in a fire early today at an abandoned house on Broadview Ave. Firefighters had to use chains(...)
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Man and machine: Above, fire fighters struggle to bring a blaze under control
Man and machine: Above, fire fighters struggle to bring a blaze under control
11/7/1983