Perhaps the writer is confused, but usually someone in authority provides official details about fires in the city. Many times that's a public information officer or fire commander on the scene.
But in what can be considered a first, a WANE TV photographer has now officially declared that the fire is out, and that no one was home at the time. Maybe the on-scene reporter was too busy having a smoke or was updating their Facebook page to bother someone in authority for official details of the fire. Or, maybe, WANE TV no longer sends reporters to "routine" stories and the cameraman had to shoot the scene and report the story.
In the brave new world of 21st century local TV reporting, this may be the trend.
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ReplyDeleteIf THIS is a trend, then we may be seeing the demise of on-scene reporting with information gleaned from the PROPER sources.