Buffalo Box 191 North Division & Grosvenor Streets; December 27, 1983
Buffalo Box 191 December 27, 1983 Buffalo, New York Five Firefighter Line-of-Duty Deaths As Buffalo (NY) firefighters arrived at the scene of a reported propane leak in a three-story radiator warehouse...
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