Two volunteer Clarkridge firemen were treated and released at Baxter Regional Medical Center Tuesday evening following a rollover accident on Highway 201 North near the Twin Bridges while en route to a fire.
Clarkridge Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Lucy Soltysik says firemen Eddie Houpt and Allen Kendall were treated for minor injuries at BRMC and released. The brush truck they were in was totaled.
The two were responding to a blaze along County Road 38 that had rekindled from a controlled burn earlier in the day.
Soltysik said the blaze was part of a day beginning about 10:00 Tuesday morning when four Clarkridge firemen suited up to assist the U.S. Forestry Service with a controlled burn beginning at 11:00. The control burn was over about 16 acres.
She says after assisting the Forestry Service for about five hours and while putting away their equipment, the Clarkridge firemen were called out for the first of two fires that rekindle from the controlled blaze and were reportedly threatening structures. Soltysik says both fires were contained without any damages to the structures.
She says in addition to the fires, the Clarkridge Fire Department responded to two medical assists Tuesday. Firemen wrapped up their calls and were back in service at 9:30 Tuesday evening. Clarkridge firemen were assisted by the Mountain Home Rural Fire Department.
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