A huge explosion at the Maumee Chemical Co. in 1962 killed ten and injured 46 and was felt all over East Toledo.
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The Blizzard of 1978
Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Blizzard of ’78, probably Toledo’s worst winter event.
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Toledo’s lesser known tornadoes
The king of tornadoes in the Toledo area will likely always be Palm Sunday, 1965, but it wasn’t the first destructive tornado in the area.
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The Ohio Fireworks Derecho
One of the biggest storms to ever strike Toledo happened on a holiday evening in 1969, and eventually became known as the Ohio Fireworks Derecho.
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Gas tanker explodes on Anthony Wayne Trail
Harold Brandman, a 23-year-old copy clerk for The Blade, was stopped at Logan Street and the Anthony Wayne Trail on a Saturday morning, June 10, 1961, when he heard a loud scraping sound.
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The Yuma hits the Cherry Street Bridge
The ice broke on the Maumee in March, 1908, and the steamer Yuma, torn from its mooring, took out a good chunk of the former Cherry Street Bridge.
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Ten die in Woodville Road accident
Ten people, eight of them children, died in a July, 1963 accident southeast of Genoa on Woodville Road.