Adrienne Alpert Biography
Adrienne Alpert is an American journalist working as a general assignments reporter for ABC7 Eyewitness News.
In 1961, Adrienne moved with her family to southern San Diego County, USA and she later moved on from San Diego State University with a degree in news-casting.
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Alpert is married to Barry Paulk, owner of an executive recruitment firm. They have a 26-year-old son.
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Adrienne Alpert Career | Adrienne Alpert ABC7 Eyewitness News
Adrienne Alpert is a general task journalist for ABC7 Eyewitness News. She additionally has Eyewitness Newsmakers, a half-hour week after week program committed to a more profound investigation of neighborhood issues and concerns.
Adrienne joined ABC7 in 1996 in the wake of commencing her TV profession in San Diego. Adrienne found her first employment at KSDO News Radio in San Diego, where she filled in as a stay and correspondent, and furthermore facilitated a Sunday night television show.
In 1977 Adrienne joined the staff of San Diego ABC-TV associate KGTV and worked there as a grapple/columnist for a long time.
Adrienne has won various Emmys, Golden Mikes and Associated Press grants for insightful announcing, narrative and news composing.
Adrienne Alpert Accident | Adrienne Alpert Injuries
A veteran TV journalist allocated to cover a news meeting in Hollywood was genuinely scorched Monday when the microwave transmitter stretching out from a KABC van came excessively near a 34,500-volt electrical cable and caused a blast.
The correspondent, Adrienne Alpert, 48, was transported to Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, where specialists performed crisis medical procedure to reestablish bloodstream to consume territories over 25% of her body. Heather MacKenzie, Alpert’s picture taker, and a Los Angeles cop endured minor wounds and were treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and discharged.
The mishap happened about 9:45 a.m. as Alpert and MacKenzie were setting up for a live communicate from the side of Santa Monica Boulevard and Gordon Street, close to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
As indicated by observers, Alpert was inside the van as the transmitter was being raised a few feet. MacKenzie was helping position the transmitter when it contacted or drew close to a high-voltage wire. That made a power circular segment that set off a blast, specialists said.”The arcing resembled a small scale lightning jolt,” said Los Angeles Police Officer Patrick Beighley, who was harmed.
Beighley said he saw Alpert in the front seat, pretty much to escape the van, when “there was enlightenment and after that a concussive blast.”
Beighley experienced elbow and face scratches being thumped to the ground. At the point when he looked into, smoke was originating from underneath the van’s hood and the transmitter’s receiving wire had liquefied.
Witnesses said mechanics from close by auto fix shops opened the hood of the van, cut the battery wires and smothered flares in the motor as cops and others hurried to Alpert’s guide.
Specialist Steve Petrosyan rushed to the van, under 20 feet from his auto mechanics shop. MacKenzie, the van’s driver and a 20-year veteran at KABC, was in tears and requested that he help Alpert, whose hands and feet were seriously scorched.
“I began crying when I saw [Alpert], on the grounds that I couldn’t do anything,” said Petrosyan, who was unsure in the event that he should contact her.
Petrosyan said Alpert groaned, “I can’t relax. . . . I would prefer not to kick the bucket.”
A representative at the Grossman Burn Center said she was in basic however stable condition. Specialists said Alpert endured severely charred areas to her arms and feet.
Alpert and a few different journalists were in Hollywood to cover an LAPD newsgathering reporting a crackdown on guardians who neglect to clasp kids into vehicle security seats.
Alpert, an El Cajon local and graduate of San Diego State, worked at KGTV-Channel 10 in San Diego from 1977 to 1996 as a political columnist, general task correspondent and grapple before going to KABC in Los Angeles. Updates on the mishap staggered previous partners and rivals in San Diego.
“Adrienne is a resilient individual. She has an extraordinary demeanor,” said Lee Swanson, official maker at KGTV. “I know she’s confronting more medical procedure, yet she’s the sort of individual who can manage this superior to anything anybody I know. We as a whole have a great deal of trust in her here.”
Adrienne Alpert Lawsuit
TV correspondent Adrienne Alpert at KABC-7 TV in Los Angeles, CA, who was basically scorched in 2000 when the pole of a news van receiving wire she was working in hit an electrical cable, has settled a claim against ABC Inc. also, different organizations coming from the mishap as indicated by distributed reports that statement an announcement from her lawyer, Bruce Broillet. The lawyer said that Alpert and ABC have made a deal to avoid unveiling subtleties of the settlement.
Alpert’s story was accounted for a few times in News Photographer after the occurrence, and she kept on working at KABC-7 subsequent to recouping from a few medical procedures and physical recovery.
The correspondent was on task in Hollywood on May 22, 2000, when a KABC-7 picture taker raised the 42-foot extending pole of their news van into an overhead electrical cable, as indicated by the suit.
Reports said power shot through the van and her body as she ventured out of the vehicle. Alpert lost a portion of her correct leg, half of her left arm, some portion of her left foot and a few fingers on the correct submit the consequence of the electric shock.
In the suit against ABC Inc., Alpert claimed carelessness by ABC and fought that the organization was liable for giving preparing in the activity of the news van. A story in the San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Alpert had recently arrived at an $800,000 settlement with the creator of the van’s pole, Will-Burt Co. and that the settlement ended up known to them when court records about the pending suit against ABC Inc. were made open.
The KABC-7 Web website says that Alpert joined KABC-7 as a columnist in 1996. She moved on from San Diego State University with a news coverage degree and worked at KSDO News Radio in San Diego as a stay and columnist with a Sunday night television show. In 1977 she joined KGTV, the ABC associate in San Diego, and was a stay and correspondent there for a long time before coming to KABC-7.
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Dr. Lucy Jones discusses how to better prepare for earthquakes
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones appeared on Newsmakers from Caltech in Pasadena, where she was teaching a class.
Now retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, she is the founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society.
Jones’ Center teams science with public policy. One focuses on making more resilient communities, especially when it comes to earthquakes and water supply.
Our water supply has to cross the San Andreas Fault. Dr. Jones says the aqueducts can be made more resilient to handle fault lines and be repaired more quickly.
Just as important, the pipes from homes to the water lines will break. Restoring water could take six to 18 months.
“We now have pipes that don’t break in earthquakes,” Jones said. “If I were making a recommendation, it would be a region-wide commitment to move toward those seismic resilient pipes.”
Dr. Jones says most buildings won’t kill us in a quake, but many will need to be torn down, a disaster for our economy.
“The economic vulnerability is extremely large and the cost of moving towards a better building standard is small,” she said. “Our estimate is it’ll add about one percent to the cost of construction to build buildings that we can repair instead of having to tear down.”
A final word from Dr. Jones and the ShakeAlert App: it was working as intended for the Ridgecrest quakes.
“It was a magnitude 7 but the shaking that you received was an intensity III. And I think if people understood intensity better and that it’s not magnitude and what the differences are, we’d all be better off,” she said.
Glenn Pomeroy, CEO of the California Earthquake Authority also appeared in the program.
Only 10 percent of Californians have earthquake insurance.
It is available not only to home and condo owners but renters and mobile home residents as well.
Earthquake insurance is not mandatory, but if an earthquake topples your home, you will have to keep paying the mortgage.
Pomeroy says quake insurance is much more affordable now.
“You just borrowed money to buy that home, whatever happens to that home, the bank doesn’t care; you still owe them that money,” Pomeroy said. “That’s why it’s so important to get that financial protection in place. Most people have most of their retirement tied up in what they’ve invested in their homes. They’re putting it all at risk, losing it in a heartbeat.”
The California Earthquake Authority was started in 1994, after the Northridge quake.
“Earthquake insurance is so much more affordable than people think,” Pomeroy said. “It used to be very expensive. We brought prices down by over 50 percent since we were around. So for anybody around here who thinks that’s just too expensive, give us a look. Check it out.”
You can go to the website here.
David Englin, COO of Red Cross L.A. Region discussed preparedness. Starting with the most basic supplies, Englin explained what it means to “get a kit, make a plan, be informed.”
