Captain JC Brown has shared his huge collection of newspaper and magazine clippings he gathered during his 35 year career as a London Fire Fighter.
Containing over 250 submissions this is an excellent collection.
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January 1981
Arson Clues Sought at Y
By Don Murray, Mary Kehoe, Cheryl Hamilton & John Hamilton of the Free...
Down, but definitely not out
Coated with frost themselves, firefighters Tim Askin, left, and Earl Smith, both of the Central firehall, took an axe to the ice in front of the Y to free water lines.
$1 million fire rips London’Y’
By Mary Kehoe, Cheryl Hamilton, John Hamilton and Don Murray of the Free Press Fire...
Decades of building destroyed by flames
By Joan Barfoot of the Free Press It took 40 years for the founders of...
Snorkles and Ladders
Firefighters using 'snorkles' and extension ladders stopped the fire in the London YMCA building from spreading to the adjacent five-storey residential wing.
Fighting a major blaze in mid-winter
Fighting a major blaze in mid-winter, when temperatures are hitting record lows, means a lot of extra headaches for firefighters. One of the struggles at Sunday's fire that destroyed the oldest part of the downtown YM-YWCA in London was to get water lines freed from the thick ice that formed in front of the Wellington Street building, which itself was covered with ice from the hoses.
Sunday morning…
As the sun rose Sunday, a dark cloud of smoke spread across downtown London, marking the destruction of the oldest section of the city's YM-YWCA, built in 1895. (London Free Press)
August 1980
$100,000 Apartment Fire
Fire investigators were to continue today to probe the scene of a $100,000 fire which forced residents to flee 17 apartments in a south London building early Sunday.
April 1980
Probers seek cause after $500,000 blaze
Fire destroyed the Classic Hobby Crafts Ltd., store on the ground floor at 263 Dundas and the How-To bookstore above it.