Help arrives for tornado-stricken Dumas
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DUMAS, AR -- Help, courtesy of some generous Mid-southerners arrives in Dumas, Arkansas after a destructive tornado tore through the town three days ago.
The F-3 tornado, packing winds up to 200 miles per hour, carved a 19-mile path of destruction destroying dozens of homes. There is still a lot of work to be done to get people on the road to recovery and today the residents are trying to get back to some sense of normalcy.
Hundreds of volunteers have come from everywhere including the Mid-south. One of the groups is the Forrest City Branch of the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Team. The team pulled their trailer into the Dumas today and came prepared, bringing everything they need to feed a 1000 or more people for the next three days.
"Whatever we need to do, we can do in this trailer. Beef stew, beans, green beans corn carrots - all the vegetables we can cook in this," says one volunteer.
The Forrest City team will concentrate on the kitchen detail. They will sleep, eat and cook inside their Baptist church.
"There was a need here. I saw it on TV and I felt a want for these people to come here and help them," says another volunteer.
The group is experienced when it comes to disasters. They assisted during Hurricane Katrina and in New York during 911, but they say they feel a special connection to this mission. This time they are helping their neighbors who are just a few counties away.