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Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday, as Herbert Green, a neighbor, shows. M(...)
Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday, as Herbert Green, a neighbor, shows. M(...)

Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday, as Herbert Green, a neighbor, shows. M(...)

Date5/14/1974
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  • Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday, as Herbert Green, a neighbor, shows. M(...)
  • Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday; as Herbert Green; a neighbor; shows. Mayor Mel Lastman wants to ban construction of such single-exit homes.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Screens are difficult to remove in the North York townhouse project where six persons died in a fire yesterday; as Herbert Green; a neighbor; shows. Mayor Mel Lastman wants to ban construction of such single-exit homes.
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Firemen used heavy wire cutters to remove screens like these from windows at Roseland Public School to fight a fire today. An education board official(...)
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Overcome by smoke inhalation while fighting a fire in a North York townhouse that forced six persons to flee their home, fireman Frank Hall is assiste(...)
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Nineteen horses died when fire swept through three barns at Shadow Creek Farm on 7th Line, Stouffville, Saturday
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Saeed Deria, 16 died
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