Medford/Ashland fires

[tvguy]

NO ONE was in charge.  Someone should have been on TV giving out all the info there was as well as trying to answer questions.
And i don't mean out local news people.

And now, the media is having a virtual orgy of reporting. Picking over the bones.  Where WERE they when this was going down?? They were eerily quiet, even into the late evening...nothing new was reported.  Knowing where you (meaning me) was at with the evactuation was a crap shoot.

Yes but what I'm saying is it's not really the medias job to inform us about everything. That should be someones job in emergency management.
It's funny that we have been told over and over what WE need to do as far as being prepared. And now when something happens we have been warned about or government dropped the ball.

I disagree with you there.  I think it IS the media's job because in times of emergency they are a public service.  They are essential.  At any rate, for someone who didn't have internet or television, it was a complete failure.  Though at some point all you had to do if you were in Medford was look at the enormous wall of smoke that was towering in the sky and getting closer to know something was dead wrong.

I don't see how you can expect a civilian entity that is basically out to make a buck be in charge during catastrophes like this. They have fucking kids working for them with cell phones
They simply are not capable that was blatantly obvious. The info and the warnings need to come from a military type perceptive. You know chain of command with someone at the top directing, ordering people under their command to find and report critical information.
Just like they do with a command station out in the forest with a top dog fireman in charge. And that should be on a TV station 24 hours a day.