Re: Donna gets heard - and seen! (on Nightline, of course)

[Nostatic <nostatic@attbi.com>]

I was actually on the air at WXLO during wee hours of the night of the 
fire.  The station was still live 24/7 back then.  WTAG was on the bird 
and WSRS was automated.  Dunno about WAAF but they weren't a Worcester 
station back then either :) I can tell you this--there was not a lot of 
information coming out of Worcester Fire and Worcester Police that 
night. It had become obvious that the six firefighters were lost, but 
the emergency officials would not release that information officially. 
 I was able to get information about road closures and such relating to 
the fire, and relayed that to the listeners.  We got more calls that 
night asking for information and I found out what I could while still 
spinning music.  I even got a call from the BBC at 3am and was 
interviewed live on one of their morning "chat shows."

Mike Thomas  

Kevin Vahey wrote:

> Locally you need look no further than the Worcester fire of 1999.
>
> You need somebody at the studio especially if you controlling more 
> than one signal.
>