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In article <173318@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>In article <9110211414.AA26011@TIS.COM> stur@TIS.COM (Jeff Sturgess) writes:
>>I didn't see or hear the news this morning.  Does anybody know the
>>current situation out there?
>
>Please, do not post requests of this type to the net. Find an officemate who
>has a radio or a newspaper, or call a friend or relative that you know is at
>home. The net is simply not an appropriate or effective medium for "newsy"
>information -- by the time you get a reply, the news is too old to be useful. 
>
 
I, for one, do not think that the response given to the question about
the news of the fire in the East Bay Hills was inappropriate.

 1) I live on the East Coast (New York) and the news in the paper is
    too old to be considered useful except to fill in the gaps.

 2) Radio and TV coverage are sketchy at best.  15-30 second spots
    cannot convey the true picture of what was going on.

 3) While I do have relatives in the Oakland area, I probably wouldn't
    be able to contact them due to overloaded phone lines, so that's
    out.

 4) I'm not affiliated with an EMS organization of any type and I feel
    that a discussion of this disaster, if kept to the topic at hand
    is wholly appropriate.

I recently started reading this group so I don't have any knowledge of
whether or not the Earthquake and Hurricane of 1989 and the Cove Neck
NY disaster (plane crash) were discussed.  If they were, then a
discussion on this fire is wholly appropriate.

Dave

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