- Date
- circa 1966-05
- Kind
- Accident
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- disasterconstructioncommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 1966 Beaver Beacon reported that a tent used by Marshall Sheets as temporary housing while building a Beaver Island cabin caught fire when a gas cooking-stove flame got out of control. Sheets escaped, but the tent and his belongings burned.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper accident report. It does not provide a precise date, property-loss estimate, cause analysis, or incident record.
Sources
- Reports a gas cooking stove flame getting out of control while Marshall Sheets was building a cabin, burning his tent and belongings; it does not provide a precise date, loss estimate, or incident record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1966-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published report; it does not expand the source-specific fire, property, or response claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1966-06_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Marshall Sheets's temporary cabin tent burns, 1966”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-marshall-sheets-tent-fire-1966/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1966, “Charred Sheets.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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