Name: Beaver Island Fire Department responds to a chimney fire at the Martin home, 1982
Start: 1982-09-25
End: 1982-09-25
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 1982-09-25
Kind: Accident
Carried out by: Beaver Island Volunteer Fire Department
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: emergency-managementpublic-servicecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On September 25, 1982, the Beaver Island Fire Department responded to a chimney fire at Colleen and Buddy Martin’s home on Darkeytown Road. The October Beacon reported that the fire was handled without injury.

Evidence limits

This is a brief newspaper notice, not a fire investigation or incident register.

Sources

Beaver Island Fire Department report, Beaver Beacon, October 1982.
Reports the September 25 call to a chimney fire at Colleen and Buddy Martin's home on Darkeytown Road, Billy McDonough's response, and that the fire was taken care of without injury. It is a brief newspaper notice, not a fire investigation or incident register. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 1982, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held sixteen-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the chimney-fire report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Fire Department responds to a chimney fire at the Martin home, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-colleen-martin-chimney-fire-1982/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Fire Department report, Beaver Beacon, October 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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