Name: Beaver Island Fire Department responds to three May–June fires, 1982
Start: 1982-05-15
End: 1982-06-05
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 1982-05-15 – 1982-06-05
Kind: Accident
Carried out by: Beaver Island Volunteer Fire Department
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: emergency-managementpublic-servicecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June 1982 Beaver Beacon reports three separate Fire Department responses: a May 15 Beachcomber chimney fire, a May 29 rental-car fire near Cable’s Creek, and a June 5 Darkey Town Road brush fire.

Evidence limits

The short newspaper report does not establish causes, damage totals, injuries, or formal fire-department incident records.

Sources

Beaver Island Fire Department report, Beaver Beacon, June 1982.
Reports a quickly extinguished Beachcomber chimney fire on May 15, a Burris rental car destroyed by fire near the Cable’s Creek public-beach entrance on May 29, and a brush fire on Darkey Town Road on June 5. It gives no cause, damage estimate, injury report, or incident number. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, June 1982, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eleven-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the three fire notices.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-06_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Island Fire Department report, Beaver Beacon, July 1982.
Reports a June 24 false alarm caused by the Gillespies burning brush and a June 28 grass fire in a field on Sloatown Road between Barney’s Lake Road and Piper’s Corner, nearly extinguished before trucks arrived. It gives no damage, cause beyond the reported brush burning, or incident number. 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 · 1982-07_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, July 1982, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held thirty-five-page mixed archive item is paired with the canonical OCR source; its first fifteen pages contain the July 1982 report and later pages contain a separately dated July 1985 insert.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Fire Department responds to three May–June fires, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fire-incidents-may-june-1982/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Fire Department report, Beaver Beacon, June 1982. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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