Paul Walker's Reach Out WorldWide- EF4 Arkansas Deployment 2014

The tornado that hit Arkansas on the evening of April 27th gave little warning to the residents of Mayflower and Vilonia. Most people didn't have time to evacuate. All they could do was sit and wait, praying that their homes wouldn't be in the path destined for destruction. Unfortunately, not all of those prayers were answered. The EF4 tornado left behind a 41-mile trail of devastation, killing sixteen people and destroying 400 to 500 homes. Entire fire departments were non-functioning and local first responders were in short supply. Back in California, our ROWW team knew that we could help.
Within 48 hours of the tornado, Team ROWW had boots on the ground in Vilonia. We sent a team of five volunteers, from firefighter to construction worker, with one thing in common: expertly skilled with a chainsaw.
The primary concern in the area was the threat posed by damaged trees. Trees had fallen across driveways, were blocking roadways, and obstructing doorways; they had crashed into houses and collapsed power lines. An even larger hazard was from those trees that were still standing. Damaged trees that hovered over homes threatened further destruction in the next storm, if not sooner. Our primary goal of the deployment was to eliminate as many of these threats as possible.
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