- Date
- 1980-12
- Kind
- Disaster
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Volunteer Fire Department
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- disastercommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The December Beacon reported a nonfatal fire at Richie Gillespie’s house. The Fire Department and islanders brought it under control before total loss, and rebuilding was underway.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper fire report, not an incident log, insurance file, or cause determination.
Sources
- Reports that Richie Gillespie’s house burned, no one was injured, islanders and the Fire Department controlled the fire before total loss, water and smoke damage exceeded the remaining structural damage, and rebuilding was underway. It does not provide an exact date, address, cause determination, insurance file, or incident 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 · 1980-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the house-fire report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1980-12_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Fire damages Richie Gillespie’s house on Beaver Island, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-richie-gillespie-house-fire-1980/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1980, “Fire.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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