New Gap Fire Photos! (click here)
(Photo of the Santa Barbara County Gap Fire, courtesy of UCSB student Ryan Gangstamari, taken on a rooftop on Del Playa drive in Isla Vista.)
KCSB 91.9 FM broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from the base of Storke Tower at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus. Our staff and programmers are working overtime to provide comprehensive information and breaking news about the Gap Fire and its effects, including evacuations, blackouts, and health advisories. KCSB is also a broadcast hub in the County’s and State’s Emergency Alert System.
KCSB will be providing ongoing on-air coverage of the Gap Fire, but staff restrictions mean that we will have limited web updates over the long holiday weekend. Stay tuned to KCSB throughout our current state of emergency for all the latest news and information. KCSB also wholeheartedly encourages listener and community calls about Gap Fire developments: please call the KCSB Request Line at (805) 893-2424 (or 893-2425 during any Goleta blackouts) with eyewitness reports or other comments.
Additional information regarding the status of the Gap Fire and emergency operations is available at:
Incident Information System Gap Fire Updates
Santa Barbara County website
Santa Barbara City website
KCSB also recommends that community members rely on battery-powered radios during any extended power outages (tuned to KCSB 91.9 FM, we hope). Keep listening to KCSB for our ongoing coverage, and please consider adding (805) 893-2424 and 893-2425 to your phone directories.
Below are links to two interviews and the news broadcast for July 4; all related to our Gap Fire coverage.
GapNewsJuly4 [54:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (74) Janet Stanley, CEO of the Santa Barbara area Red Cross [10:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (66) Air Quality issues [4:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (65)
KCSB: As a graduated Gaucho from decades past, I listen to KCSB regularly. I give you high compliments for your Gap Fire coverage. The spontaneous reporting has been excellent. As one of the onair people said yesterday, your flexible and timely programming shows the importance of KCSB to the community in general, the county/ Goleta and also illustrates the importance of radio stations like KCSB nationally. Great job.
I haven’t been able to get the online streaming service to work. Heard the KCSB coverage of the fire is the best on the radio but from outside SB I can only get AM1290 online. Help!
James,
The webcast is back up.
We’ve had major power outages on the UCSB campus (as well as all over the county), so keeping our website and webcast up and running has been problematic. And even if we are able to get our broadcast systems on a backup generator, the UCSB campus itself may not have power or internet connectivity - so our web presence has become a secondary focus.
If you need information, please don’t hesitate to call the station at 805-893-2424 or 805-893-2425. Even if KCSB is on backup generator, 805-893-2425 will reach the studio.
Hang in there everyone.
Bryan D. Brown
KCSB Chief Engineer