A residence was destroyed, but no lives lost, thanks to the quick thinking of a neighbor. Two dogs in the residence were let out by the man who noticed the smoke.
Terry Fears of Pea Ridge was driving on Weston Street when he saw smoke coming from a mobile home at 577 Weston Street and stopped to check on the occupants. When he opened the door, two dogs came running out, Fears said, adding that a police officer on the scene said the dogs would be safer out of the residence than in. "I saw the smoke coming out of the end of the trailer ... I turned around and I noticed there were two vehicles here so I wanted to make sure there wasn't nobody in the house," he said. "I went around the back, I opened the door and hollered. No answer.
"I went around the front. I didn't get no answer," he said.