12 Years ago
12 Years ago: Only hours earlier, this ghostly ice palace was the London YM-YWCA building at Queens Avenue and Wellington Street, It was early Sunday January 5th, 1981, when ...
Arson Clues Sought at Y
By Don Murray, Mary Kehoe, Cheryl Hamilton & John Hamilton of the Free Press. Investigators will be looking for the signs of arson as they probe the ruins ...
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 investigators hope to get into the ice-sheathed ruins of the downtown London YM-YWCA today to ...
Decades of building destroyed by flames
By Joan Barfoot of the Free Press It took 40 years for the founders of the London YMCA to get around to constructing the permanent headquarters in the city. On ...
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)
YMCA Fire
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