Arkansas officials took steps recently to help residents of the state impacted by a fuel spill caused by severe storms .
According to the Arkansas Advocate , environmental regulators issued an emergency order to help address a large spill of red dye diesel fuel in Craighead County, Arkansas. The containers holding the fuel were severely damaged by a series of tornadoes in the region, causing the fuel to leak into the surrounding environment.
The fuel leaked into ditches near the storage site that ran through a residential area, with the potential to reach the St. Francis River. Inspectors who visited the site reported high concentrations of diesel fuel in the ditches…