- Date
- 1981-06
- Kind
- Publication
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationcommunityemergency-management
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 1981 Beaver Beacon retracted its May claim that the Kenwabikise mobile home was a total loss. It reports that only one room was damaged and that Joey Kenwabikise and his brother Johnny extinguished the fire before the Fire Department arrived.
Evidence and limits
This is a source correction, not an independent fire investigation or repair record.
Sources
- States that only one room was damaged, Joey and his brother Johnny had the fire out, and the Fire Department arrived about ten minutes later. It explicitly corrects the May total-loss statement. 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 · 1981-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twelve-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published correction.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “The Beaver Beacon corrects its Kenwabikise fire report, 1981”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-kenwabikise-fire-retraction-1981/, accessed [date], citing Editor’s retraction, Beaver Beacon, June 1981. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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