I think your dates might be off here. I'm pretty sure that the power outages started on Wednesday night, July 2. The fire had only been going for about 100 minutes as of 7:20 pm on Tuesday, July 1, and flames were not quite visible yet. The outages started on Wednesday due to the thick smoke and continued on Thursday night (but didn't last as long for us over near IV, at least).
Regardless, I remember turning on the radio right when the power went off on Wednesday night and the only station that was reporting anything related to the fire was KCSB. It took another hour or so for 990 AM to get their act together and even then they only had a what sounded like a pre-recorded loop.
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Posted on July 6 at 9:47 a.m.
I think your dates might be off here. I'm pretty sure that the power outages started on Wednesday night, July 2. The fire had only been going for about 100 minutes as of 7:20 pm on Tuesday, July 1, and flames were not quite visible yet. The outages started on Wednesday due to the thick smoke and continued on Thursday night (but didn't last as long for us over near IV, at least).
Regardless, I remember turning on the radio right when the power went off on Wednesday night and the only station that was reporting anything related to the fire was KCSB. It took another hour or so for 990 AM to get their act together and even then they only had a what sounded like a pre-recorded loop.
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