Better late than never. Thought this might be warranted as this disaster has escalated immensely over the past two days.
Feel free to post local and international coverage here.
CNN has Anderson Cooper on the ground
Watching Sevens coverage… they only have 1 reporter on the ground?
Nine have provided longer coverage - their 4pm bulletin had +20 minutes yesterday. They had 2 reporters.
ABC have Barabar Miller
Sometimes hard to tell though
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I would say nine is leading its coverage over Seven at the moment.
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The local LA stations have been doing non-stop rolling coverage - often times without commercial breaks.
However, KABC took a break overnight. I can’t watch KNBC on YouTube because it’s geoblocked - the others are fine.
KABC and KCAL/KCBS have also been bringing in reporters from some of their O&O sister stations interstate.
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ABC News Australia has Brent Pascua, Cal Fire Battalion Chief doing a interview at 1:10pm.
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Have been watching KNBC on the NBC News app. It’s been really good.
4pm News cross to Mike Amor reflecting on the 10 years he spent as US Correspondent living in the Palisades area. His former home lost to the fires.
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Really think Seven should have opted to have someone like Mike Amor covering this. They just did a cross to him on the Afternoon News and he brings a great insight from his experience of living in LA.
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Given the magnitude of this, I am wondering if we will be in for another one of those global celebrity telethons organised by George Clooney similar to those held after 9-11, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
Seven have brought in Ashlee Mullany from Europe to assist as a second reporter in covering this event.
I’m assuming all other correspondents are on holidays.
Karina also briefly interviewed Mike Amor in the Melbourne 6PM bulletin about the fires and his association with the affected area. It was pretty raw stuff.
It was also mentioned that he has written a piece about this on the Seven News website, but I can’t find it
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She is so good too. I was just thinking about where she was. Forgetting shes in Europe.
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That was very good of Mike to do, he was clearly a bit emotional as well, talking about his neighbours and friends and the road obliterated which he’d go up every day.
Karina also asked him about previous wildfires in LA and in general and he said he’s seen/covered a lot, just like earthquakes and it’s just part of LA, but said they were definitely getting worse.
It’s just unfathomable, absolutely tragic. Brings back many bad memories from Black Saturday here 16 years ago, eerily similar pictures, entire towns flattened, thousands of properties destroyed, but thank God the death toll for now isn’t sky high thanks to modern strategies and procedures executed successfully at least in terms of evacuating and saving human life.
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I think this is the article, a good piece written by Amor:
*nearly two decades (according to the 7 article), 18 (Karina said on-air). The “nearly 10 years” was the time he resided at his family house in Malibu. He was on the ground for Seven on 9/11.
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I’m fascinated by the news chopper tech the LA stations have - GPS co-ordinate and zoom syncing of the helicopter camera to a 3D aerial satellite view. Pretty neat.
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Yea it’s super cool. They use the same tech with traffic and high speed car chases where they show the traffic / car chase live from a chopper - and superimpose street names / highway names and traffic volumes live over live shots. Its super cool.
Local stations in the US have really advanced tech and tools to cover news that our stations dont have
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I’m surprised Ch7 didn’t bring in Mylee Hogan.