Local L.A. News Reporters’ Fight For Accountability & The Truth About How We Got Here: “You Have To Really Dig In”
deadline.comOn Wednesday morning this week, KCAL/KCBS reporter Jeff Nguyen was walking the fire-ravaged streets of Altadena once again.
As a seasoned reporter, this is not the first disaster he’s ever covered, but it certainly compares to the absolute worst he’s ever seen. “I covered the Maui fires,” he says. “I covered the tsunami in Southeast Asia 20 years ago, earlier in my career, and this is on that level.
You see rows and rows and rows of homes that have been just devastated.” Nguyen is on the ground covering the start of the repopulation process, just as he has been on hand from Day 1 of these horrific events.
In the past week, he has spoken with countless people on what is perhaps the hardest day of their lives — people whose names and stories he has heard and whose pain he has witnessed.
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