Last week's grueling agenda with MLK Day, the Inauguration, the Medical Mart, Browns Watch, and so much more has whipped my derriere!
It is only Monday, and I am spent, pushed to the limit! It's gonna be a loooooong week.
There is never a reprieve, a break, a time-out up here on the news assignment desk. Something is either always happening in the newsroom OR on the scanners. It's up to me to weed out what IS or IS NOT pertinent and newsworthy on the scanners.
The wall-to-wall non-stop news began this morning with the Browns' GM announcement....right where it left off Friday with breaking news on the Medical Mart situation.
The Canton Mayor story was more reporter-driven, not much for the desk to do except be aware of, should something else break. Tom Beres and Dave Summers rocked on their coverage.
My entire shift, breaking news after breaking news ......my camera guys sat down long enough to ingest their tapes and the minute they were done, I shooed them out the door again on something new.......
We had a lot of new 'spot news' including 3 serious armed robberies (two involved shootings) and then the fire at the Eastlake CEI plant. This fire sounded worse than it was on the scanners as they asked for mutual aid from Willoughby, Wickliffe, Euclid, Painesville Twp, Mentor-on-the-Lake, and Mentor....but a representative from CEI said it was not as serious as it sounded and there were no injuries reported.
Gathering updates on the water main break, child left alone, home invasion/dead body ID, ID on the morning fatal fire, etc., occupied the rest of my time.....
Needless to say, it IS going to be a LONG week on this rollercoaster ride.....
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