{"id":3441,"date":"2008-08-07T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/08\/07\/fire-of-1904\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:27:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:27:34","slug":"fire-of-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/07\/fire-of-1904\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Fire of Toronto in 1904 video clip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[flv]http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/fire\/news\/100\/images\/fire_1904.swf[\/flv]<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been a fan of the Toronto Star&#8217;s recent addition of comments to their regular articles. Much like the Globe and Mail, the comments seem to be a place for personal attacks on other commenters or at the writer of the article. Spacing is lucky to have a respectable readership that uses our comment section &#8212; for the most part &#8212; to engage in a debate or conversation (thank you, loyal readers and commenters).<\/p>\n<p>But, I still read the Star readers&#8217; comments anyway, hoping to find reasonable commentary. In the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/GTA\/article\/472225\">an article on Toronto&#8217;s Great Fire of 1904<\/a>, a reader provided a link to the City&#8217;s website with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/fire\/news\/100\/index.htm\">video clip from the blaze<\/a>. I was totally unaware that any film of the historic event had been captured &#8212; I&#8217;ve only seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/gencat.eloquent-systems.com\/webcat\/systems\/toronto.arch\/resource\/fo1244%5Cf1244_it0002.jpg\">historic photos <\/a>often used in books or displayed at the city&#8217;s Archives building. What I find most charming is the amount of cyclists riding on the street and the folks running on foot behind the fire &#8220;engines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I say this with my tongue firmly planted in cheek, but I wonder if the fire department in those days told the city it could or couldn&#8217;t build a road to a certain width because they wouldn&#8217;t be able to get their horse-drawn carriage down the street (read the &#8220;Public Enemy&#8221; feature in Spacing&#8217;s fall 2006 issue for our take on the fire department&#8217;s role in creating horrible streetscapes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[flv]http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/fire\/news\/100\/images\/fire_1904.swf[\/flv] I haven&#8217;t been a fan of the Toronto Star&#8217;s recent addition of comments to their regular articles. Much like the Globe and Mail, the comments seem to be a place for personal attacks on other commenters or at the writer of the article. 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