- Date
- 1983-04-25
- Kind
- Accident
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Volunteer Fire Department
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- emergency-managementpublic-servicecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May 1983 Beaver Beacon reported that the Beaver Island Fire Department responded to a chimney fire at Bob Malloy’s house on April 25. The fire went out on its own and caused little damage, according to the brief account.
Evidence limits
The newspaper item does not supply a formal incident number, cause, damage estimate, or complete responder list.
Sources
- Reports one April fire: a chimney fire at Bob Malloy's on April 25; the fire department was on scene, but the fire went out by itself and caused little damage. The same column thanks B.J. Wyckoff for teaching the firefighters. This is a brief newspaper incident report, not an incident file, damage assessment, or training record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1983-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fourteen-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the fire report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1983-05_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Bob Malloy chimney fire is reported on Beaver Island, 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bob-malloy-chimney-fire-1983/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Fire Department report, Beaver Beacon, May 1983. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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