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L.A. Reporters Cover Devastation in Their Own Neighborhoods During Wildfires: ‘Feels Like a Nightmare’ and ‘Fatigue Is Setting In’
Inside how local L.A. TV handled the devastation, as stations went with wall-to-wall fire coverage.
Enrique Chiabra was anchoring coverage of the Los Angeles fires for Telemundo’s KVEA-TV (Channel 52) on Wednesday night when a new blaze erupted in Hollywood’s Runyon Canyon. It’s been a demanding and emotional week for Los Angeles’ local TV stations, which went wall-to-wall with non-stop, commercial-free news coverage starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing through Friday. KTTV Fox 11’s Gigi Graciette knows the danger firsthand: She was injured in 2008 while covering the Sayre fire, when a propane tank exploded and sent a sliver of metal into her eye.
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