Back to reality today; back to work. But in my work, there’s usually something interesting happening. And today was no different.
Just as I took my seat and a staff meeting was starting this morning, my phone rang. I whispered, “Hello” and the voice on the other end said, “Oh are you in the meeting? I was hoping you were still at the airport, there’s an emergency.”
Just then, as I got up from my seat to head for the door, Seth, who works at our assignment desk in the newsroom, listening to scanner traffic and tracking all that goes on in the region, walked into the room and said I needed to get the airport right away.
I had spent the entire morning there, covering security here locally, following the tragic, deadly bombing in Turkey. So my photographer and I raced back to the airport.
An American Airlines plane had flames shooting out its tail while still on the taxi-way, prior to take off. I chased down information from the airport and the airline. Firefighters got it out fast and everyone got out safely. I reported the details, live from the airport at 11:00 am.
Just another day in the life of a reporter. Today, I could use a little pampering. After all, my feet have been sweating it out in motorcycle boots for more than 2 weeks and my hands in gloves, so I treated myself to a manicure/pedicure. The massage on my calves and my sore, right forearm from holding the throttle on the bike day after day, felt great!
When I got home with groceries, my husband cooked it all up for dinner and then he showed me some of his handy work today. He compressed the GoPro video he took with me riding in front of him, as we wound our way through California this week. Enjoy!
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