LH2828 Firemen at intersection of Simcoe and King Streets, facing northeast
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Crowd gathering at corner of King Street West and Simcoe Street. Firemen with hoses standing in forefront. An Oshawa City bus and The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is in the background.
- Notes
- The fire was in the block just south of Burns Shoes, on the west side of Simcoe Street, just south of King.
More than 120 firefighters and 11 trucks from Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering, Brooklin, and Bowmanville were called in to fight the blaze, considered the worst fire in Oshawa's history (at the time). The fire appears to have started above the Fashion Village shop and spread quickly. It lasted 15 hours and the damages were estimated at $500,000. - Date of Original
- 10 Jan 1961
- Date Of Event
- 10 Jan 1961
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- LH2828
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.90012 Longitude: -78.84957
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- Location of Original
- PHOTO GPC B-007 000441
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
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