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A KATV, Channel 7, signal tower lies crumbled after collapsing Friday south of Redfield.
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REDFIELD — A 2,000-foot television
tower collapsed Friday afternoon in rural Jefferson County, knocking
two stations off the air and sending about a dozen workers running for
safety.
2,000-foot television tower collapses during work
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None of the workers, who were restringing guy wires at the time,
suffered serious injuries in the collapse of the tower owned by KATV,
Channel 7, the ABC affiliate in Little Rock.
“I was scrapping wire by the trailer and I looked up, and it was
coming down and I ran,” said Wesley Hogue, one of the workers. “We were
all really shocked.”
The tower was built in 1965, and at the time was considered the
second-tallest structure in the world, just 63 feet shorter than a
tower in Fargo, N.D.
For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Subscribers can read the story here on ArkansasOnline.
Originally published 06:00 a.m., January 12, 2008
Updated 08:12 p.m., January 11, 2008
Information for this article was contributed by The Associated Press.
