IRON MEN, WOODEN LADDERS (DVD vers),
Firehouse Mouse Productions, 2004
This program is available in DVD only.
Iron Men, Wooden Ladders is a documentary story about The Great Toronto Fire of 1904. It's a story about how the people of Toronto fought a fire that engulfed more than 20 acres of the Downtown Toronto core.
Exactly how the fire started remains a mystery. Early reports suggested that faulty electrical wiring was to blame. Others believe it was a stove left burning. Whatever the source, by the time a watchman saw flames and sounded the alarm at 8:04 pm on that icy night of April 19, 1904, the fire was well on its way to burning Toronto to the ground.
Miraculously, although many fire fighters suffered minor injuries, no one died in the fire. Financial losses were another story. Total estimated losses were $10,000,000 in 1904 dollars.
Join your host, Bryan Ratushniak, an 18 year veteran of the Toronto Fire Department, as he takes us back 100 years to a time when ordinary men became extraordinary heroes.
33 minutes, narrated, DVD, DI9100 / $24.95
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