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Fire coverage thread

Billy Crystal, Mark Hamill and other celebrities have lost their homes :cry: :cry: :cry:
Now a fire in the Hollywood Hills.
LAUSD shut down tomorrow. UCLA going remote.

PRAY!!! FOR RAIN!! And the firefighters!! 🙏🙏🙏
 
Billy Crystal, Mark Hamill and other celebrities have lost their homes :cry: :cry: :cry:
Now a fire in the Hollywood Hills.
LAUSD shut down tomorrow. UCLA going remote.

PRAY!!! FOR RAIN!! And the firefighters!! 🙏🙏🙏
As long as everybody got out safely, that's what matters. Houses can be rebuilt. People can't.

Either I missed it -- and I was watching coverage most of the day -- or they haven't determined what caused the fires as yet. Sorry, but it won't shock me if the first one was human-caused (read: arson), and it spread from there. I hope I'm wrong.
 
Either I missed it -- and I was watching coverage most of the day -- or they haven't determined what caused the fires as yet. Sorry, but it won't shock me if the first one was human-caused (read: arson), and it spread from there. I hope I'm wrong.
There have been so many that it’s going to take awhile to sort out the causes.
 
More reporting of radio coverage of the LA fire:

I tuned in this evening and this is what I heard in the 8 pm hour.

1070 KNX straight ahead coverage.
640 KFI, Tim Conway Jr. talking about covering the fires.
790 KABC, some babbling
870 KRLA, Mark Levine screaming about people being shamed for living in single dwellings and not living in multi units and taking mass transit.
89.3 KPCC, straight simulcast of KCBS-TV/KCAL
89.9 KCRW, David Bowie/Space Oddity.
 
I was honestly surprised when I popped on KFI last night around 2:30 and heard them live and local. They’re apparently doing the same overnight tonight.
 
The reporters I've worked with typically choose to do this kind of reporting. They see danger as what they do.
If I ran the worker's comp insurance company for these stations, I'd seriously consider cancelling their insurance after seeing how close the reporters were to the fire.
 
Could you identify them, or did you grab any screenshots? KTLA doesn't seem to have a Youtube livestream up right now.

Here's a screenshot. Look down the hill to the small building with flames coming out of it.
 

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Are radio stations and tv channels on mount wilson off as of now?
The stations have their microwave relays up there as well as the transmitters. KTLA's relays have been a bit hit and miss, probably because of heavy smoke. But still running,as is their webcam. KTLA was first up there in 1947.
 
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