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The Beacon publishes home fire-escape planning advice, 1980

Also Fire Tip of the Month number two

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Date1980-04
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Summary

The April issue continues Jerry Buys’s Fire Tip series with household escape-plan and smoke-safety advice.

Evidence and limits

This is public-service advice, not a fire-code adoption, inspection, or incident record.

Sources

  1. Explains two escape routes per room, smoke and toxic-gas behavior, staying low, checking doors, not re-entering, an outdoor meeting place, and calling the fire department. It is public-service advice, not a fire-code adoption, inspection, or incident 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 · 1980-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twelve-page April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the fire-safety column.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1980-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “The Beacon publishes home fire-escape planning advice, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fire-tip-fire-escape-plan-1980/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1980, “Fire Tip of the Month #2.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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