Damaging winds tear across the area, overturn fire truck

By: Jim Williamson - Texarkana Gazette -

Published: 03/04/2008

Staff photo by Jim Williamson Little River County Sheriff Danny Russell checks the damage on the Peanut House, south of Ashdown on U.S. Highway 71. The building flipped during high winds Monday. The building stores peanuts which can be purchased during the holiday season.

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ASHDOWN, Ark.—A fire truck overturned Monday morning while on patrol for damages from strong winds that swept across Southwest Arkansas.

A Hicks Volunteer Fire Department “brush truck” overturned around 10:38 a.m., wrecking the truck but leaving the driver with minor injuries.

Volunteer firefighter Jason Rhodes was driving through heavy rains southbound on Hicks Road about 2 miles northeast of Ashdown when the truck went onto the shoulder.

“It appears he lost control and overcorrected, hitting a mailbox, and then went across to the northbound lane causing th...

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