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Brass Rail Burns

By Marc Lostracco

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Peeler aficionados and mammary augmentation connoisseurs are breathing a sigh of relief today as news returns on this morning’s fire at Toronto’s legendary Brass Rail. Traffic was snarled and redirected as police closed Yonge Street from Isabella to Bloor to battle the fire. Emergency workers were able to contain the blaze inside the Brass Rail’s notorious façade, preventing it from spreading inside the club and to neighbouring businesses.
Article updated 7:00 p.m. Top photos by Marc Lostracco; bottom photo by Cretaceous from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

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  • guest

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

  • David Topping

    Ah, the suggestiveness of it all!

  • guest

    Just walked by and talked to the owners daughter Jodie Cooper.. the fire was contained just to the sign out front and there was no damage inside. The Rail is now OPEN and it is business as usual!

  • Kevin Bracken

    Haha, the firemen must have loved fighting that one

  • Soloman Lam

    I’m surprised no one has yet made a pun on that extended ladder.

  • Andrea T

    I’d wondered what was going on. When I walked by around 6:30 there was a latter leading against the fire exit upstairs and a really bad smell. When I walked by again around 10 it looked like business as usual. I didn’t see any fire trucks either time so at first I wondered if they were just changing the sign.
    Does anyone know what caused the fire?

  • guest

    Smoking hot strippers, that’s what!

  • Gloria

    I’ll give the obligatory caption for the extended ladder: SPROING!!

  • guest

    I heard the roof was singed a little; gives new meaning to the term, “topless bar”

  • brokenengine

    “a really bad smell”
    Theres a joke in there somewhere, but I’ll stay out of that minefield.