Ozark

Certified Firewise Community/USA

Members of the Franklin County FireWise Board receive training on the Arkansas Woodland Home Forest Fire Hazard Ratings (left). The community of Ozark, the Franklin County Seat, formed a FireWise board on March 18, 2003, and became a certified FireWise Community on Dec. 21, 2004.

Franklin County FireWise Board members are Fred Mullen, Franklin County Emergency Coordinator; Leon Hall, Altus Rural Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Rose Rinke, Harris/Red Oak Ridge Subdivision; Nick Haney, Altus Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Mona Graham, Barnes Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Eugene Wilson, Branch and Branch Rural Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Benny Lowery, Cecil Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Rick Rainwater, Charleston and Charleston Rural Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Josh Willhite, Oak Bend-Etna Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Bill Brockett, Ozark Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Gary White, Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Craig Hartleston, Rural Fire Department #11 Chief; Ben Shaffer, Watalula Volunteer Fire Department Chief; Veronica Post, Altus Mayor; Gerald Harris, Branch Mayor; Sherman Hiatt, Charleston Mayor; Paul Lee, Denning Mayor; "Bat" Coley, Ozark Mayor; Joe Powell, Franklin County Judge; Reed Haynes, Franklin County Sheriff; Ben Sisk, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission; Bill Yates, Arkansas Forestry Commission; Rick Bradford, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Poncho Flores, U.S. Forest Service (Ozark CCC); Robert Jones, real estate agent and Toby Hogan, insurance agent.