THE Carr Fire gets more intense and tragic by the minute; all the Bay Area TV News stations continue to provide full coverage with a host of live trucks and reporters covering the continuing devastation in Redding and Shasta County.I want to give kudos to KGO (ABC7) Reporter, Laura Anthony, for some first-rate coverage from the scene of the destruction.
It's particularly hard to cover and the environment and obstacles are plenty.
Here's some video and pictures courtesy ABC7.
* I WANT to emphasize the degree and difficulty in covering these massive wildfires. I've never been on the front line of one of these disasters but I was witness to and experienced the Oakland Hills inferno in 1991; at the time, the worst firestorm to hit an urban area ever in terms of loss of life and property damage and destruction. The North Bay Fires last October eclipsed that.
*To get to the scene and provide dramatic video, reporters and photographers --still images and video cameramen often have to venture out into dangerous terrain --they are of course, restricted by the fire people but they still operate under intermittent hazardous environment and have to be extremely careful.
It's not the most choice assignment but someone has to do it.
