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This episode discusses a tragic fire incident in a Toronto apartment building that resulted in multiple fatalities due to poor emergency response.

CLICK HERE JOIN ME AT BLUE LIGHT SHOW | LONDON | JULY 2026 On the 6th of January 1995, at five in the morning, a man discovered his sofa was on fire in apartment 509 of a thirty-storey residential block in North York, Toronto. He tried to put it out, failed, and ran leaving his apartment door wide open behind him. That single decision set off a chain of events that killed six people, all of them found above the twentieth floor in smoke-filled stairwells, in a building where the fire never mea...

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