Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How evacuees are coping with the Saddleridge fire
Multiple fires are blazing across the state, including the Saddleridge fire that broke out on Thursday. It’s moving fast in the San Fernando Valley.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 1 min readMultiple fires are blazing across the state, including the Saddleridge fire that broke out on Thursday. It’s moving fast in the San Fernando Valley. By noon today, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes, and upwards of 4700 acres were burned.
KCRW reporter Anna Scott gives an update from an evacuation site. We hear Jeff Kane, a Porter Ranch resident who was notified to evacuate at 3 AM. And we learn how big tech companies in Silicon Valley were spared from this week’s scheduled blackouts.
Barbara Bogaev
radio journalist
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir
Associate producer
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Jeff Kane
Porter Ranch resident who was evacuated
Michael Wara
director of the climate and energy program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment