Category: wildfire

  • No news, so here is some bad press!

    The Santa Barbara Independent has had excellent coverage of the Gap Fire, but I decided to look for more information elsewhere. A lot of shit went down with the Santa Barbara News-Press before we moved to town, but I thought I should given them one chance. Although the News-Press has an extensive online section for…

  • Smoke before fire, but both before information

    We were visiting family this weekend, and spent a fair amount of time assuring them that we weren’t affected by any of the California wildfires, as they were hundreds of miles north of us. And then last night, a fire broke out maybe ten miles from where we live. The Santa Barbara Independent — a…