New America Media: Ethnic Media Cover the Fires
SAN DIEGO—(U.S. ASIAN WIRE)— Ethnic media are on the front lines of the Southern California fires, covering the effects of the devastation on their communities and providing information for evacuees and those who wish to help.
Hispanic residents who needed to evacuate their homes in San Diego had trouble finding information in Spanish about what to do, reports the Spanish-language publication Enlace.
“I saw a huge cloud of black smoke coming toward my house but I didn’t know what to do,” Noemi Orozco, a 38-year-old resident of Ramona, told Enlace. As the fires began to spread on Sunday, Orozco said, she turned on her television but none of the Spanish channels interrupted their programming to provide information.
“I watched the English channels but it was hopeless because I can hardly understand it,” said another woman. “At 7:00 p.m., the police came and one spoke Spanish, telling me to leave my apartment because of the approaching danger.”
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