Back On The News Beat

So I've been back with the paper, now Northwest Arkansas Newspapers L.L.C., since the first of the month. Admittedly I wasn't exactly looking forward to transitioning back to news full time after three months of non-stop football. But, surprisingly, things have gone well and I've had some good assignments and feature hunts. The photos above are from a house fire in Rogers on my second day back. I haven't shot a good house fire in a long time. In this case it was good since the home was abandoned and nobody was hurt. I'll be posting more news photos in the coming days.

Don't Smoke In Bed

I covered an apartment fire yesterday in Rogers that was the result of a man falling asleep in bed with a cigarette. During the course of my career I've covered several of these kinds of fires. Luckily the man escaped the fire and was uninjured.


The man's wife showed up on the scene from work. She was pretty upset. The couple's four kids were at a baby sitter. She was very grateful for that. What seemed to upset her the most was knowing that the whole thing should have never happened. Their lives had been sidetracked because of a stupid cigarette. Very sad.