Social Media News in Action

I'm anxiously monitoring the news from home since there's a wildfire VERY close to home that just started this afternoon in Boulder.

In the comment thread following today's article in the local newspaper about the fire, I found this: 

Which took me to here:

And yes, the local newspaper is doing a pretty good job there getting updates out. This speaks to the power of these social media tools.

Twitter helped me to discover that the senior parking lot of my school is staging the fire crews:

Facebook is helping me out here too. From a colleague:

From another colleague, a picture of the senior parking lot:

From another colleague:

From another colleague:

From a former student:

From my husband:

I'm not there but I've got up-to-the minute information about what's going on. That helps my anxiety a bit. So I'll monitor the Twitter and the Facebook for the evening. 
And the local newspaper too.

(Also, welcoming comments on whether or not it was okay for me to post these FB snippets here--should I have obscured people's names?)

Sarah M. Zerwin
Fairview High School
Boulder, Colo.