Arkansas Governor Beebe Declares Five Counties Disaster Areas Due To Severe Weather And Heavy Rain

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Apr 7, 2008 -- LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe today declared Arkansas, Garland, Pulaski, St. Francis and Saline Counties state disaster areas due to damage caused by severe storms and heavy rains on April 3 and 4.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has informed Arkansas that requests for federal assistance related to the latest storms can be grouped with requests already made regarding recent flooding.

Tornado damage in Little Rock, Arkansas: Photo by David Quinn (CC)

This will accelerate the damage-assessment process. As a result, these five counties will be added to the previous disaster declarations of recent weeks, bringing the total number of declared counties to 44.

Previously declared counties include Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Conway, Crawford, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hot Spring, Howard, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Logan, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Nevada, Newton, Perry, Pope, Prairie, Randolph, Scott, Searcy, Sharp, Stone, Van Buren, Washington, White, Woodruff and Yell.

FEMA teams, which are still assessing damage from recent Arkansas flooding, will determine if the latest storms will result in federal assistance for individual victims.

Source: Arkansas Governor