A crew of 20 firefighters, including five employees of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Forestry Division, left Fort Smith today to work wildfires in Oregon.
The National Volunteer Fire Council supports the nation’s volunteer fire and emergency services. Volunteers make-up 67 percent of our nation’s fire service and protect their neighbors in all kinds of emergencies.
Local Firefighters were busy selling t-shirts during the month of October to raise money for cancer patients in our community. Coming up this Thursday, December 19 at 1PM they will present 12 cancer patients each with a check.
The ranch is eerily quiet and horridly hot, even if it is after midnight on an August night. Suddenly the silence is shattered by the sounds of nervous livestock, fighting to get free from the restraints of the barn walls. Looking out the window, your heart stops as flames leap in the distance, gaining momentum as they spread across the dry grasslands you live on. With so much at stake, who are yo