Melanie Hicken
Senior Investigative Writer at CNN
@CNN senior investigative writer. Mom. NYU adjunct prof. SU/NYU grad. Loves investigative reporting & good wine. [email protected].
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Jan 17, 2025 |
cnn.com | Blake Ellis |Melanie Hicken |Kyung Lah |Anna-Maja Rappard
The most recent data available from the 10 largest US cities and other comparable departments shows the Los Angeles Fire Department is less staffed than almost any other major city, leaving it struggling to meet both daily emergencies and larger disasters such as wildfires.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
rnz.co.nz | Blake Ellis |Melanie Hicken |Kyung Lah |Anna-Maja Rappard
By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Kyung Lah and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNNLess than a month before fires swept across Los Angeles, a group of longtime firefighters gathered at City Hall to plead for more resources. They were at a "breaking point," one said. Another revealed that million-dollar fire trucks sat idle because budget cuts had shrunk the number of mechanics available to fix them.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Blake Ellis |Melanie Hicken |Kyung Lah |Anna-Maja Rappard
Menos de un mes antes de que los incendios arrasaran Los Ángeles, un grupo de bomberos veteranos se reunió en el Ayuntamiento para pedir más recursos. Estaban en un “punto de quiebre,” dijo uno. Otro reveló que camiones de bomberos de US$ 1 millón estaban inactivos porque los recortes presupuestarios habían reducido el número de mecánicos disponibles para repararlos.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
msn.com | Blake Ellis |Melanie Hicken |Kyung Lah |Anna-Maya Rappard
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Jan 11, 2025 |
actionnewsnow.com | Curt Devine |Casey Tolan |Blake Ellis |Melanie Hicken
(CNN) — Even as flames in Southern California continued to carve a destructive path on Friday and fire officials sought to assess the damage and determine how the fires began, a larger question loomed: Could this level of devastation somehow have been minimized, or is this simply the new normal in an era of climate-related calamities? A CNN review of government reports and interviews with more than a dozen experts suggests the ultimate answer is a mix of both.
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As someone who teaches early career journalists at @nyu_ajo and works with them at @cnn, I can't disagree with this more. Is there any profession than loves to attack itself from within more than journalism? Let's do better. I rarely ever tweet, but this got me fired up
hard to take any media feature that includes this quote too seriously https://t.co/z39MhUjIBR
Grateful to the many many sources who helped this report come to fruition, including countless family members, some who at first wondered if we were scammers trying to take advantage of their elderly family members.
RT @ZachMontellaro: Great story from CNN on something that many folks in politics *know* is happening, but is so hard to capture: the explo…