Santa Rosa Radio: Inside The Fire Zone

KSXY/Santa Rosa, CA PD Dray Lopez

WINE COUNTRY RADIO Alternative KSXY (THE 101)/SANTA ROSA PD DRAY LOPEZ checks in with an update on the devastation in the NORTHERN CALIFORNIA wildfires.

The air quality is the worse it has ever been recorded. They said the first two days of the fire put out more pollutants in the air than a whole year of car pollutants, and the air is getting worse today, hopefully the winds don’t pick up too much though because we don’t want the fire getting out of control.

I’m doing okay; I’m much more fortunate than some of my family and friends. Our Traffic Director/Human Resources/friend AMANDA, her husband and kids lost everything. My aunt and uncle lost everything. Every single person in our building here at WINE COUNTRY RADIO knows somebody that has lost their home. My girlfriend's best friend ANNA and her husband ERIC have two kids and are staying with us at our home, which is one block outside of the mandatory evacuation zone. I personally know at least 15 people who  have lost everything and the number is going up every day. People are being very generous and dropping stuff off at our house for friends. I’m about to take some supplies to a lady who is pregnant about seven miles north.

Rebuilding is going to be a huge process and take a really, really long time. The photos that the media has been showing is an understatement as to what is happening.

I appreciate everyone who is reaching out. I will reach out when we really need help, not that it's not needed now, but in the upcoming weeks and months we are going to need a crazy amount of help. We already had a huge problem with homelessness in SANTA ROSA, and now it’s hard to fathom how much worse it will be.

My staff, ASHLEE SLEEK and NATALIE, have been doing an amazing job of updating the community on news as it comes in on 100.9 The 101. We are updating on-air as updates come in, and opening the phone lines. You can check out our FACEBOOK for the latest updates here

I have to say that a different cluster of radio stations in the market owned by SONOMA MEDIA GROUP is doing a phenomenal job of giving updates and we are getting certain updates from them. They are SONOMA COUNTY station KSRO-A and we are very happy to have an amazing news station like them in our market; the staff over there is amazing!

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