#boulderfire Boulder Channel 1 used Twitter to Evac Fourmile Canyon fire peeps

Everyone

Well, I just wanted to let everyone know.

When the fire broke out I was hiking up there and got run off the mountain by smoke, ash, embers etc.

then went to work.......... news editor ron baird was llready at it posting news when i arrived at our BC1 office.....

. at 12:30, turned on the scanner...started monitoring Red 1, Green, Blue, Fire and AIR.

Where my house is located we get perfect reception for all. If you go to http://c1n.tv/boulder/blog/ you can see all of the early stories.

Boulder channel 1 broke the following news:

reverse 911 failure...... so I called command...dispatch, city pio and came up with a plan to use social media via Boulder Channel 1 to get word out to foot hill homes to evacuate , that reverse 911 was down.

we started posting Boulder channel 1 news headlines on Twitter immediately and that spread to the top tweet for #boulderfire.( and it still is).... I then started getting phone calls and emails from citizens who were stranded on Sunshine canyon and Sugar loaf....

..... "we didn't receive a reverse 911" and 911 is busy so I'm calling you.

I know, it failed, get out now." What?.... get in your car and leave"

Next call: I'm on sunshine, but i can't see.... should we evacuate.( saw our tweet on mobile device)

Green Channel: Sheriff deputy to Command:" The fire has crossed the road in two place on sunshine......Tell people not to drive down above poor man".

my text Shit! don't drive down... fire.

Text message: my brother is missing. 911 busy. Evacuate sugarloaf??

me: yes, try to get out...

And so it went all afternoon and into the night.\

we also broke the story on the car propane tank.

911 failure

sm to fourmile residents evacuate

200 homes burned

Our sources gave us everything.....and being an expert newroom scanner listener......the horror of it all unfolded....it was a Holy shit moment

.

then...We had CNN, NYT and other media giving us sources and leads in order to move information......since they saw we were breaking every new story..

Meanwhile we are writing furiously.....pounding out story after story As the Scanner provided real time information

Our tweets on Twitter exploded till we were the most retweeted and viewed source in the world

plus Boulder channel 1 News far surpassed every news agency in the world.

after 4:00 everybody and their brother was on twitter. But when we started.........we were the first. first to tweet, first in news..first to react.

by 4 everyone was evacuated...........twitter wnt down......and we did our job.

we did get one story wrong..... fatality.......which we had confirmed by two sources...so we apologized for that. ( this one still may unfortunately come true in days, weeks or months to come.) Some of my headline were a bit over the top...but i wnate d people who didn't realize to get the hell out.

I did take some heat for reporting ..from some twitter kids..who were in shock that we had moved in and took over their play ground for some serious business........but we knew we had it right and lives were at stake.

the time period i am talking about is between 12:30 and 4pm

we also had the only offical interview on the cause of fire by noon.

we went Live on tuesday from the Target parking lot. Allison did 3 hours Donna did two hours, to pass out crucial information and then picked up a WW audience on TV.

We internet cast a few early press conferences. too

Tomorrow we will broadcast some of the relief efforts on boulder channel 1 , com

deep breath

Jann

from Americas most famous small cityJann Scott Boulder Colorado

Denver Police Brutality. It ain’t over.Mayor Hickenlooper and Denver PD chief Whitman do not get it

Dear Internet,
I am in total disbelief at the remarks of John Hickenlooper and Denver police chief Jerry Whitman. Their remarks yesterday backing the police department and minimalizing the dramatic increase of police brutality cases is shocking. The public continues to be infuriated by them. “we back and support our officers 100%” it is not the time. It is time to be critical and to make we will not tolerate this kind of brutality anymore. It is not the time to blame an independent report which finds rampant brutality in Denver PD. It is time to fess up. It is time to say how truly disappointed you are in the Denver PD. it is not the time for the Police Union to play the victim card. They are not victims. We are. It is not time to blame blogs and talk radio and the news for staying on this story. It is time to admit the Denver police department is one screwed is mess.

To re-cap: Video has surfaced showing Denver PD beating citizens Rodney King style in multiple instances. The department also beat to death a jail inmate in the booking area. Hearings show that the Denver PD is way out of control. Now the mayor and police chief are denying it all…along with police attorney. The public safety director Ron Herra stepped down yesterday under huge public pressure. Why did he step down?? because he is a jerk and talked like a gangster about the citizens who were beaten by Denver cops. Hick and Whitman both back these thugs. It is time for Jerry Whitman to get the hell out of Dodge. He has to go. As far as I’m concerned Hickenlooper needs to resign as mayor and drop his gubernatorial race. He has really screwed up. this is terrible. Back the police department my foot. Clean up the police department needs to be the rule of the day.
Jann Scott
Boulder Colo

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Build a mosque 2 blocks from World Trade Center footprint?..plain dumb idea…hate aside

Dear internet,
You don’t want to get me started on this topic. I’ll start to sound too pragmatic. All hate aside. But I compare the state of Islam to Nazism from 1940′s Germany Europe and State Shinto Buddhism of Imperial Japan. Both were outlawed by the League of Nations. Islam is a dangerous religion which call for the rule of the world in an Islamic state. Muslims are like Nazis or Shintos. They want world domination and the building of a mosque at the site of the world trade center is a symbolic victory for Islam. The United States, France, Germany, Brittan, Spain, the entire European Union, China, and Russia are all at war with Islam. Despite the fact that no one will say it out loud, it appears president Obama is out of step with the serious nature Islam presents to the world. Unfortunately, sooner or later all of the world civilized governments will be force to announce what they all privately believe. Islam is a violent dangerous religion which is at war with the world. we are presently in World War three and that war is with Islam.
It is not as simple as the Christian crusades of the 11th and 12 centuries. These people; Muslims, want to kill us all and rule the world. Most all of the Islamic countries are uncivilized and rule under ancient religious rules of the Koran which suppress human rights. We Americans and Brits made them all rich off of the oil we found in the middle East. The problem is that they were and still are a 12 century culture who go around beheading people and stoning little girls in Stadiums. I mean what the fuck. These people are barbarians. Fact. You can’t reason with these people. Mosques are used as recruitment centers all over the world. There are 125 known Islamic army’s in 125 different countries world wide. We are at war with Islam. They not only attacked us on 911, they started World War Three.
There is simply no difference between Islam and Shinto or the pagan Nazism. All are nationalists. You know the nation of Islam?? Civilization of Muslims collectively which is governed by the Muslim religion?? Imperial Japan? Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party?? If anything we need to ban Islam. the world court needs to rule it illegal in every country we conquer. Starting with Iraq. Either that or we are all going to fucking die the next time they nuke us on our own soil with Russian made weapons.
sorry to break the news folks, but every think tank in the world has come to this very same conclusion 20 years ago.
from america smartest city
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado

from Americas most famous small city Jann Scott Boulder Colorado

Denver Police beatings

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   Denver citizens must arm themselves to fight back at crazy Denver cops. LA did. denver police beatings.http://c1n.tv/boulder/blog/?p=13149 minutes ago via web
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from Americas most famous small cityJann Scott Boulder Colorado

Denver Police Department out of control: Unbelievable

Dear Internet,
Denver Police department has always had a reputation for system wide corruption and for officers who wear the badge but are thugs in reality. This is a department which cannot be trusted. This is a department when compared to Boulder PD does not come close to modern day policing.
This is a department who in the 1930s were mostly Klan members. In the 1940′s had unsolved murders of citizens attributed to them. In the 1970′s more than 1/2 the department were fired for taking bribes. In the 1980′s and 90s constant claims of police brutality. And now, this week we have two video cases of citizens being attacked and beaten nearly to death by patrol officers.
In both cases the Chief of police in Denver has said nothing .He needs to do something or be fired. The director of Public Safety a former Denver cop has backed his officers with a smirk and sneer on his face. He is attempting a cover up in the face of horrible video. He needs to go. Mayor Hickenlooper needs to clean up Denver PD or he needs top go too. His run for Governor is now in jeopardy. All four of those officers … I say that reservedly….they are jack ass cops who need some street justice from the community…… should have been fired immediately. They haven’t even been put on administrative leave. The message sent to the community is ” we’ll beat the crap out of whoever we want whenever we want”
If this situation is not put in check by the weekend, reprisals against Denver police officers will likely happen during this coming hot weekend. The Denver news media has gone after the Denver PD non-stop all week long. The community protests are at a peak shrill demanding resignations high and low. But the real threat is yet to come. That threat will come from frustrated citizens who will take up arms against the Denver PD. It has happened before. Los Angeles has seen daily shootings at passing police cars from atop buildings as has Oakland and San Francisco. That is just my take on it. But the citizens of Denver are in no mood. I wouldn’t want to be a cop there right now.
Jann Scott
Thank god I live in Boulder

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Jann Scott

Boulder Colorado

Drama @bouldercolorado once again.

Drama @bouldercolorado once again.

Dear Internet,

One of their problems Seth is having right now is that he is a writer; a journalist. As much as he would like to accepted by the politicians he criticized, it will never happen. Things just don’t work that way. You are friends with them until you cross that sacred line. Seth crossed it dozens of times and he crossed it in threatening ways. ie: showing up drunk at city council meetings regularly; yelling from the audience; giving drunken rambling speeches; writing highly inflammatory insulting letters to and articles about individual council members as well as the entire council; the list goes on.

When Shaun McGrath was mayor he went after Seth and stopped him from producing his satirical videos for public access TV. The way McGrath did it was by showing up at access board meetings, filibustering the meetings, not letting Seth talk and then denying him access, pulling Seth aside and overall abusing Seth. Seth and all of his “Gonzo ” journalist friends ( myself included) lined up to take literary shots at McGrath. It was merciless. But McGrath and the Boulder city council deserved every bit of the harsh criticism they received over denied access to the cable channels.

This week the council and the Daily Camera went after Seth again with more proposed laws denying Seth the right to perform in front of council and wear costumes. And Seth, rob and Donna have stated right back in on the city over their violation of civil rights. The city was in negotiations with Seths attorney on a cash settlement from the last time the city got into trouble. It doesn’t look like they have learned a thing. Shockingly, Lisa Morzal is the co -author of these new rules. They Daily Camera put Seth on the front Page portraying him as a dangerous threat. The entire council and Daily Camera went after Seth and myself in 2008 as potential threats over our journalism.. So now what?? I’ll tell you what now. It is all starting up again. Over what? Over bullshit that’s what. Anyway, our writers at Boulder channel 1 News have taken the liberal point of view against the Daily Camera’s more suppressive conservative Fox News view.
from a city that once cherished freedom
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado

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from Americas most famous small cityJann Scott Boulder Colorado

Seth Brigham hires David Lane to sue Boulder City Council

My friend Seth hired my civil right lawyer David Lane

Dear Internet
Several months ago capt. underpants went to city council and proceeded to tell them exactly what he thought of them. They had him arrested and now they are going to have to pay.
This is a result of a culmination of civil rights violations perpetrated by council on Seth over the past 5years. They got away with it through three different councils until today. All of the threats, insults, free speech violations toward Seth and others (me) are now going to Federal court. There were a host of council members who took the law into their own hands and rewrote the US constitution including former Mayors Mark Ruzzin and Shaun McGrath who lied bald face about it; other include Robin Bohannan head of BC Aids project, attorney’s Susie Ageston and Macoln Cowles who defended illegal actions of free speech violations. Other council members include; Jack Stokes, CU professor ken Wilson, and other dopey citizen politicians.
Still there is no Public access free speech TV because these nazis decided it is better to live with facism than it is with liberty.
Let us not forget the boulder ACLU who stood by watched all led to the ovens.
It’s raining hard in Boulder
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado

from Americas most famous small cityJann Scott Boulder Colorado