Media Access to Wildfires, Disasters Varies Widely by State

Journalists have captured searing, intimate images of active and dangerous wildfires burning in California, due in large part to a decades-old state law that guarantees press virtually unfettered access to disaster sites in evacuated areas that are off-limits to the public.

That’s not the case everywhere as rules about media access vary by state, and even by government agency.

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