[Tig] SoCal fires-info & coverage sources

[Ted Langdell]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 6:33 PM, SKIADCOCK at aol.com wrote:

> Pretty interesting - lot of details re: SoCal fires (think pages  
> 1-3 have
> most of the info), but includes the rest of the US as well.

http://www.inciweb.org/  has a running list of incidents.

So does CAL Fire's webpage:
http://www.fire.ca.gov/

And San Diego County has a page up about what's going on:
http://www.sdcountyemergency.com/

Some of the LA and San Diego TV stations have live streaming video...  
sometimes.

LA commercial stations (in analog channel order):
http://www.cbs2.com
http://www.knbc.com
http://ktla.trb.com/
http://www.abclocal.go.com/kabc
http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/

San Diego commercial stations (in analog channel order):
http://www.fox6.com/  (from across the border in Tijuana) has a  
"live" link that may or may not be "on" or "live."

http://www.cbs8.com/ and co-owned KFMB, 760 AM http://www. 
760kfmb.com/ which has live streaming audio

http://www.10news.com/index.html  seems to be doing live coverage on  
its website as I write this (7:34P California time)

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/index.html
NBC owned KNSD's live video link seems to be from co-ownedNBC sister  
KNBC in LA. and after the 6:30pm KNBC news ends, this feed is usually  
NOT live.  As I write this, it's showing daytime video from this  
morning.)

http://www.mytv13.com/  is XHDTV from across the border, analog  
channel 49. No broadcast news.

http://www.kusi.com/ appears to be doing live coverage on its website  
as I write this.

http://sandiegocw.trb.com/ has a prime time news and seems to have  
clips from LA sister KTLA.

KPBS-FM, http://www.kpbs.org/ the public radio station in San Diego  
has been wall to wall... even though it's transmitter site was  
overrun by fire an knocked off the air.

Commercial alternative rock station KBZT (B94/9) offered its airtime,  
and KPBS-FM was back on the air.
KPBS-FM has on-line coverage at
http://www.kpbs.org/media/assets/kpbs-fm.asx

Here's a couple of comprehensive media lists for San Diego (although  
some of the listings don't reflect the demise of WB and UPN).

http://christophercarmichael.net/staticpages/index.php/radiodial

and

http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/5/315


And for the "big picture" take a look at the NASA webpage about the  
fires:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/ 
socal_wildfires_oct07.html

If you scroll down to the Oct. 23 update, there's a link to audio  
clips that explain the Santa Ana winds and La Nina... and how they're  
related.

I think I'll quit now...

Ted.

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