My Dad the TV Star
Today I get a very rare treat by getting to take a day off of school! I went to my dad’s firestation in Hollywood where he was in a press conference!!!! This regards the train wreck I wrote about earlier. My dad was one of the people that helped find a man in the rubble that wrote what he thought would be his last note to his wife and children in his own blood.
**Now I am resuming this entry. I had to leave the PIC lab because the fire alarm in Boelter/MS went off.
Today we met the family of the victim and they and my dad were interviewed by like 20 different media outlets: news channels and other shows. The victim and his family were interviewed forever late into the night. My dad was cut some breaks, but had to wake up for a 4am interview on Katie Courrick’s show! I got the chance to meet Laura Diaz and Marc Gleason from ABC7 news, a reporter from Inside Edition, and Tony Valdez from Fox-11 News. He said that I am lucky to have such special parents. When he asked me if I wanted to be a firefighter, I said no, but that if I do depart from the math field, I would like to be some type of law enforcement investigator in missing persons or aviation accidents. He mentioned that missing persons were always the most difficult stories for him to cover.
What a great day!!!! To top it off, I saw Mrs. Schroeder’s husband - a camera man for CBS2 news. All of you from TOHS remember what a nut she was…two gears short of a watch. This was a nice diversion from all of the stress I am enduring prior to my RA interview.