Blue Eye

Certified Firewise Community/USA

The Blue Eye FireWise board was formed Jan. 24, 2006, and the community became a certified Firewise Community/USA on Nov. 20, 2006. A luncheon and recognition ceremony was held Dec. 14, 2006, in the Garden View Room of the Clinton Presidential Library.

Accepting a plaque and highway signs on behalf of the community of Blue Eye were Josh Arnold, Oak Grove Fire Department, and Steve Allen, Oak Grove Fire Chief. Also pictured are John Shannon, State Forester; Tony Siciliano, Arkansas FireWise consultant; Patricia Siciliano, Arkansas FireWise consultant; Michele Steinberg, Firewise Communities Support Manager, and Don McBride, Assistant State Forester-Protection.

Blue Eye FireWise board members are

David Murphy, Jean Morgan, chairman; Steve Allen, assistant chairman; Pat Carltown, town secretary; Adam Arnold, Doug Youngblood and Terry Hutchison.

For their first Firewise project, volunteers cleaned up the property of a disabled veteran and removed trees, cleaned up brush and trimmed trees along Highway 21 North.