Fire Department contains Jo Hooker’s oven fire, 1988

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Event

Date: 1988-07-05
Kind: Disaster
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: disasteremergency-managementcommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Island Fire Department contained an oven fire at Jo Hooker’s home on July 5, 1988. The July Beaver Beacon reports that the fire caused no major damage and publishes Hooker’s thanks.

Evidence limits

This is a brief community incident notice, not a fire-investigation report or complete damage assessment.

Sources

“Thank You,” Beaver Beacon, July 1988.
Reports Jo Hooker’s July 5 oven fire, immediate Beaver Island Fire Department and Ron Wojan response, containment to the oven, and no major damage. 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, July 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eighteen-page July issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fire Department contains Jo Hooker’s oven fire, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jo-hooker-oven-fire-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Thank You,” Beaver Beacon, July 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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