- Date
- 2013-01-09
- Kind
- Disaster
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- disasterfirehousingcommunityfundraising
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Maudrie family home was reported destroyed by fire on January 9, 2013. Forum participants immediately coordinated clothing, cash, transport, and a January 10 cleanup, and a January 13 benefit at the Shamrock. An organizer reported a little over $6,000 from that dinner, while the separate online channel was later reported to have raised about $2,500. A separate February 9 benefit in Charlevoix was later reported to have drawn more than 200 guests.
Evidence limits
This record is based entirely on contemporaneous user-generated forum reports and relief coordination. It does not establish the fire’s cause, exact home location, official damage assessment, insurance status, or a complete account of the benefits. The online amount and attendance are organizer estimates, and the posted prize-donor list is not a complete cash-donor ledger. The family’s immediate needs are preserved only at the level necessary to document the community response, not as an independent household record.
Sources
- Contemporaneous community reports describe the morning house fire, immediate material needs, transportation of donations through Charlevoix Airport, and later coordination through Mary Palmer. The thread does not establish the fire cause, property location, damage assessment, or an official response record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005930
- Announces a January 13 benefit at the Shamrock and donation channels through the Beaver Island Christian Church/news site. It describes the family as having lost its home and lacking insurance; those are community-posted relief details, not an insurance or fire-department record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005933
- Announces and reports a February 9 Charlevoix benefit at the Elks Lodge, with music, food, raffles, and a silent auction; the organizer later reports more than 200 guests. The attendance figure is an organizer estimate and the event occurred off Beaver Island.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005986
- The thread records the two-week online donation channel, the January 13 Shamrock benefit, the February 9 Charlevoix benefit, a clarification that a posted donor list covered raffle and auction items rather than all cash donors, and an organizer report of about $2,500 raised online. The amount is first-party reporting, not an audited total.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005931
- The thread calls for a January 10 cleanup using shovels, rakes, masks, and gloves, then records community support and continuing plans to deconstruct the damaged home. It is participant testimony, not an engineering or insurance assessment.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005936
- An organizer reported that the January 13 benefit raised a little over $6,000. This is a first-party, unaudited result and should not be merged with the separate online-donation estimate.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005945
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Beaver Island Archive, “Fire destroys the Maudrie family home on January 9, 2013”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-maudrie-house-fire-january-9-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Maudrie house fire,” January 9–10, 2013. (and 5 further sources listed on the page).
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