- Date
- 1982-03
- Kind
- Accident
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- emergency-managementcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Joe Moore’s April 1982 column humorously recounts a day of frozen pipes, unsafe electrical troubleshooting, a small wiring fire, transportation problems, and a minor chimney fire.
Evidence limits
The account is intentionally anecdotal and humorous; it should not be read as an official fire, electrical, or emergency-response report.
Sources
- Recounts a household mishap involving frozen pipes, a melted hair dryer, an arc-welder experiment that ignited hot-water-heater wiring, a dead car battery, an empty fuel tank, scattered garbage, and a minor chimney fire that triggered a smoke alarm. It is a humorous first-person account, not an incident investigation or safety code 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 · 1982-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held sixteen-page April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the first-person account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Joe Moore recounts a frozen-pipe and chimney-fire day, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-joe-moore-bad-day-1982/, accessed [date], citing Joe Moore, “If It Could Go Wrong, It Did!,” Beaver Beacon, April 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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