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"Silly as it may seem," mused ABC's Neal Karlinsky, "that football game is the first real sign to a lot of people around here that San Diego is now back on its feet--or soon will be." NBC's George Lewis took solace from the weather, as a coastal fog rolled in: "The skies may have been gloomy this morning but it was a beautiful sight for the firefighters, a return to normal weather."
CBS' Dean Reynolds flashed back to the height of the crisis, airing homevideo from brothers Nick and John Yphantides, who defied a mandatory evacuation to protect their Escondido home with a garden hose until firefighters arrived: "Because their homes occupied the ridge line over the San Pasqual Valley, they were the first line of defense for the whole neighborhood. They saved all but one home." Homeowners in Rancho Bernardo were not so lucky. Bobbi Davis gave Reynolds a guided tour of her home. "This is the living room over here. This right here was the garage," gesturing at dust and ashes. "It was a high ceiling," she explained, laughing as she looked up at the clear blue sky. "Not this high, but…"
ABC's week-ending Person of the Week was Bob Green, the coordinator for the state of California's firefighting effort. Anchor Charles Gibson ticked off Green's resources: 13,000 firefighters, 1,500 fire engines, 80 bulldozers, 66 fixed wing air tankers, 80 water-dropping helicopters. Firefighting runs in Green's blood: his father fought fires, two uncles, a brother, a nephew--and his 25-year-old daughter. "I am daddy's girl," Nicole Green confessed.
NBC's Making a Difference featured the dynamic work of Los Angeles Times photojournalist Karen Tapia-Anderson. She caught a crew of twelve Orange County firefighters in Santiago Canyon just as the wind turned. They were forced to pull out their silver-coated emergency shelters and crawl inside. Don Teague told us that on the hilltop "the ground itself was at least 300F so crawling into one of these was like crawling into an oven." For 15 minutes they waited for a helicopter to douse the flames surrounding them. Tapia-Anderson's photographs show them emerging alive from the silver "one at a time like a little cocoon," as she put it.
The wildfires surely make for spectacular images. Thus they are tailormade for television news. But did a local story from southern California warrant such national attention from the networks? After all, the death toll may not even reach double figures and fewer than 2,000 homes have been destroyed. CBS' John Blackstone offered statistics from the insurance industry that support the case that the flames have been hyped. Damage claims are expected to total between $1bn and $2bn. Compare that to Hurricane Andrew's $22bn, the Northridge earthquake's $17bn, the World Trade Center's $21bn and Hurricane Katrina's $42bn. "The southern California fires are barely a blip," Blackstone concluded.
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