Obion News

A volunteer firefighter in the West Tennessee city of Obion says the department is getting ugly threats after another department allowed a home to burn down.

When Vicky Bell discovered that her mobile home had caught fire she did what most reasonable people would by calling 9-1-1. However, when the fire department arrived with trucks and men following her call they refused to act .

The Forked Deer River and Obion Rivers merge into the Mississippi in Dyer County making them especially vulnerable to floods Fields look more like lakes in Dyer County as heavy steady rains saturate the farmland.

At a commission meeting Monday night in Erwin, members voted unanimously to have the county attorney draw up a resolution loosening the ban on closed-door meetings by local legislative bodies.