And if there was a wreck and the trucks were away, many of YOU would
complain.

Well-well

"No one was waiting for Greg Stanton on Sunday when he landed his
single-engine Piper Saratoga airplane at the Rogers Municipal Airport
in an emergency situation.

No crash truck. No ambulance. No first responders. "I noticed there
weren't any trucks," Stanton said. "I noticed the bay doors of the
fire station were closed. At that point I was starting to wonder, '
Where the hell is everybody?'"

The answer to Stanton's question was downtown Rogers, where,
according to Fire Chief Wesley Lewis, the crew in charge of manning
Station No. 3 - which is on the west side of the airport - was
picking up an auto part for an ambulance at Station No. 1. "It was a
fluky incident," Lewis said. "It's one of the shortest notices of an
aircraft emergency. Either we have no warning or we have 10 to 15
minutes."

In this case, the Fire Department received notice of the emergency
shortly before 10:30 a.m. when Stanton was two minutes from touching
ground. He had just taken off and was 10 miles from Rogers when smoke
began to fill the cockpit and the oil pressure started to drop. "There
was no doubt this was an emergency," Stanton said.

The nearest contingent of rescue workers was four minutes away at the
time, but they never came.

No drive by. No checkup. In fact, they didn't even roll a truck out
.....
It irked Stanton just as much, if not more, that no emergency personnel
arrived at the scene following the landing than the fact that no one
was there to greet him. "I don't care if they show up 30 minutes
later," Stanton said."

Bubba, take Greyhound next time---JG