Old Flames: An Extra-Alarmer on Riverside Drive
During the noon hour on a beautiful fall afternoon in early October of 1963, fire broke out on the upper floors of an old, three-story commercial building on Riverside[…]
Category: Historic Windsor Fires
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Old Flames: The Bowman-Anthony Fire, May 21, 1967
One of the largest fires in Windsor during Canada’s Centennial Year broke out in an old factory building on Langlois Ave. on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the middle of[…]
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Old Flames: The Herald Press Fire, 1974
On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June of 1974, I was driving in downtown Windsor with a fellow fire buff from Toronto. At that time I had a radio scanner[…]
Old Flames: Windsor’s Big Fires
One of the largest and most spectacular fires in Windsor’s history consumed a sprawling factory complex at 945 Walker Road on the warm summer evening of Saturday, June 30, 1985.[…]
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1971 – J. T. Wing Building Fire – Pitt Street East
Originally Published in Fenton Fire Magazine (May, 2008) Written by – Robert Kirkpatrick The force of water is great. Firefighters know this and it is why firefighting equipment must be constantly tested[…]
