Name: Beaver Island firefighters complete certification exercises by video conference, 2009
Start: 2009-06
End: 2009-06
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 2009-06
Kind: Education
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: emergency-managementeducationcommunicationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Nineteen Beaver Island firefighters completed early-June training exercises and passed the reported practical examinations as part of an eight-month, 348-hour certification course. The Beacon says video teleconferencing was used with state and Charlevoix County officials.

Evidence limits

This preserves the newspaper’s training and examination report; it does not reconstruct individual certificates or the complete course roster.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 2009, "Island Firemen Tested."
Reports 19 firefighters completing early-June training exercises, practical and written exams, an eight-month 348-hour course, and video teleconferencing with state and county officials. 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 2009, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the certification report and photographs.
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Beaver Island Forum, "Historic Completion of FFI&II Training on Beaver Island," "Beaver Island Fire Department," and "Beaver Island Fire Department on News," June 5–12, 2009.
Forum posts report mainland mutual-aid coverage while Island volunteers tested, a 19-person roster and reported pass result, and a linked television segment. The July Beacon remains the stronger held source for the course and testing; the forum adds contemporaneous community reporting but not certificates.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island firefighters complete certification exercises by video conference, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-firefighters-certification-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2009, "Island Firemen Tested." (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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