While news coverage of the Southern California wildfires is slowing down like the Santa Ana winds (which may pick up again according to forecasters) I keep scouring websites, and the wires to see what’s going on with the hunt to find the arsonists responsible for this disaster. Being a California native, I am on the phone constantly with my family and friends talking about the latest in our now crispy state, to see how everyone is doing, and to check on the investigation into how it all started.

Leave it to KFI-AM 640 to add a little incentive (or a big one as the case may be) to find the firebug who left so much of Southern California scorched, hundreds homeless, and several dead. I have blogged before about this mighty radio station in L.A. (I am not only a former employee, but a big fan…) and knew from many of your responses that you would want to know about this. Check out this link from KFI’s website for more info.

We’ve seen rewards work before in bringing in the bad guy or gal… Like so many out there, I hope this reward does the trick, and brings justice to those who have lost so much.

I’ll admit it. I am a news radio junkie. (Which would explain why I spent so much of my career as a reporter for two of California’s biggest news talkers: KFBK, and KFI!)

Our Fox News team of course, is hands down, the very best in the business, and has the most riveting reporters to take us through the story of the Southern California wildfires. Those flames… that smoke… Can’t you almost feel the heat from watching it on T.V.?

On the radio, there is nothing better than listening to my former colleagues at KFI AM 640. With one eye on the T.V. here in New York watching Adam Housley, Dan Springer, Jonathan Hunt, and Casey Stegall, I’ve also been listening to fire coverage on-line to KFI AM 640.

Radio is theater of the mind, and when you report on the radio, you always have to keep in mind that listeners can’t see what you see, which is what makes it such a thrill to deliver the story through word pictures, and painting the landscape with your vocabulary. I’ve been listening to Jodi Becker describe the “major flanks of fire” from the scene… Eric Leonard report in Orange County as he was nearly engulfed in flames himself while live on the radio. Michael Clarke, Gary Hoffman, Bill Handel, Chris Little, Terri Rae Elmer, John and Ken, back at the station at the helm taking listeners through every detail of the firefight, and bringing So Cal listeners the most comprehensive coverage you could ask for.

I would never dream of taking any listeners away from our airwaves, but if you ever have a chance to listen to the 50-thousand watt powerhouse KFI while in Southern California, (Fox News affiliate too!) check ‘em out. Chances are, you’ll be stuck in traffic anyway, but you’ll be glad they are with you!