- Date
- 1994-11-12
- Kind
- Disaster
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- fireemergency-managementpublic-servicecommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island fire department’s phone and beeper network assembled a fully equipped volunteer brigade at the Ronald Gallagher family home during a major fire late on November 12, 1994. The published continuation says the emergency was contained with minimal loss, praises the department’s clean-air apparatus, and describes the Fire Department Auxiliary’s more-than-$50,000 support since its founding. It also solicits additional volunteers and identifies the responding brigade members.
Evidence limits
This is the department’s published response and recruitment account, not an incident investigation, engineering assessment, or independently reconciled financial ledger. The article’s “minimal loss” description is retained as newspaper reporting rather than converted into a quantified damage estimate.
Sources
- Reports a 10:30 p.m. November 12 phone and beeper response that assembled a fully equipped volunteer fire brigade at the Ronald Gallagher family home during a major fire; the continuation says the emergency was contained with minimal loss, praises the department’s clean-air apparatus, describes the Auxiliary’s more-than-$50,000 support since its founding, solicits volunteers, and lists the brigade personnel. 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 · 1994-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the fire-response account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1994-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island volunteer firemen respond to a major Ronald Gallagher family house fire on November 12, 1994”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ronald-gallagher-house-fire-response-1994/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1994, “They’re Not Just Good — They’re Remarkable!” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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