- Date
- 1986-04-26
- Kind
- Disaster
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Volunteer Fire Department
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- emergency-managementpublic-servicecommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 1986 Beaver Beacon reports a rapid Beaver Island Fire Department response to Joe Kilmartin’s April 26 fire, from the first beeper alert through the tanker pool and fire-control times.
Evidence limits
This is a submitted response-time account, not a fire-investigation file, damage assessment, dispatch log, or complete incident record.
Sources
- Reports a fire at Joe Kilmartin’s home on April 26, with the first arrival at 8:57, first fire truck at 9:01, tanker at 9:07, tanker pool at 9:09, and fire under control at 9:12. The account was submitted by Ron Wojan and based on notes by Irv Sturm; it is not a fire-investigation file, damage assessment, or dispatch log. 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 · 1986-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nineteen-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the response-time account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island firefighters respond rapidly to the Kilmartin fire, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-kilmartin-fire-response-1986/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Fire Department response-time account, June 1986 Beaver Beacon. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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