![]() ![]() Alison has won awards from the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, and the California Golden Mike Awards. She occasionally hosts the KPBS Roundtable and KPBS Midday Edition. She has done many stories on the military in San Diego, and the series she edited on the challenges veterans face returning from active duty to civilian life won “Best of Show” from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns. Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. John Winder, deputy chief of Tactical Air Operations for CAL FIRE, says his agency focuses on catching fires when they are small, and 95 percent of the fires they fight around the state are 10 acres or less.Īlison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. Navy reserves are also ready year-round to support CAL FIRE if civilian resources are not enough. Naylor said the Marine Corps will keep two helicopters at Camp Pendleton with a trained crew on standby during fire season. “We do what’s called hot seat,” Naylor explained, “where they’ll get one guy qualified and then they’ll load another guy in, so we can train multiple pilots with one airplane, just cycle them through, as well as the crew in the back, because the crew in the back are really the guys that have to know when to pull the release cord to let the water go.” Naylor said one problem in the past has been that Marines get trained and then deploy overseas, so this exercise trained a number of pilots. Standing, watching the helicopters swoop round for drop after drop, was Colonel Mike Naylor, operations director for Marine Installations West. The CH 46 SeaKnights then rose slowly and followed a civilian spotter helicopter to drop the water exactly where it was needed. Two Marine helicopters at a time flew in over tiny Lake Pulgas, and hovered just feet above the water, sending up waves of fine spray as they scooped up buckets of water. ![]()
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