Richard Bednarski, Covering Fires and Smoke in the West as a Reporter and Photo Journalist

Our Town Reno

What's it like for journalists covering the devastating fires and never ending smoke here in the West during a historically bad year? Our guest is one of our current reporters Richard Benarski, who was an intern with the Reno Gazette-Journal this past summer, and whose aspiration is to become a storyteller raising awareness by covering climate change. He’s also from Quincy, California, a town in the thick of it, so he’s been reporting in an area he’s extremely familiar with. In this episode he gives many insights both about the situation, what it's looking like right now and in the weeks ahead, and being a reporter literally thrown into the flames.