- Date
- 1980-02
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- public-servicecommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February-March 1980 Beaver Beacon begins Jerry Buys’s Fire Tip of the Month series with practical smoke-detector and home fire-safety advice.
Evidence and limits
This is public-service advice, not a fire-code adoption, inspection, or incident record.
Sources
- Introduces a planned recurring home fire-safety column by Jerry Buys and explains smoke detectors, toxic gases, placement, purchase, installation, and contacting a local fire department. It is public-service advice, not a fire-code adoption, inspection, or incident 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 · 1980-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twelve-page combined February-March issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the fire-safety column.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1980-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “The Beacon begins a recurring home fire-safety column on smoke detectors, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fire-tip-smoke-detector-1980/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February-March 1980, “Fire Tip of the Month #1 — The Smoke Detector.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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