Name: Beaver Island joins the Guiding Light emergency-beacon program, 2004
Start: 2004-07
End: 2004-07
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2004-07
Kind: Announcement
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: emergency-managementemergency-managementcommunitytechnology
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Jim Campbell announced that Beaver Island had joined a Charlevoix/Emmet “Guiding Light” program distributing exterior emergency beacons. The lights could be activated from inside a home to guide emergency helpers and cost $6 each.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 2004, "Emergency Lights."
Reports the Island's inclusion in the Charlevoix/Emmet Guiding Light program, in which exterior emergency lights can be activated from inside to help responders locate a home for a $6 donation. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the public-safety notice.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island joins the Guiding Light emergency-beacon program, 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-emergency-beacons-program-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2004, "Emergency Lights." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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