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RVs evacuated to Ventura County Fairgrounds as safety measure during big storm

RVs park at Ventura County Fairgrounds after being evacuated from a nearby RV park because of concerns about flooding from the storm
Caroline Feraday
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KCLU
RVs park at Ventura County Fairgrounds after being evacuated from a nearby RV park because of concerns about flooding from the storm

One of the areas evacuated in the big storm was an RV park in Ventura.

Ventura Beach RV Resort saw serious flooding a year ago, so ahead of the big storm, residents were evacuated to Ventura County Fairgrounds. Among them, Sherre Savala.

"They did a mandatory evacuation Sunday afternoon, and we got to learn how to move, how to pack, how to do everything in 12 hours. So we got a good lesson," said Savala.

Ron Williams was traveling from Portland, Oregon in his Airstream, and was evacuated from the RV Park.

Williams spent the night in his RV at the Fairground instead.

He joked that he'd brought the Oregon weather with him, as he prepared to continue his journey south.

Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She won LA Press Club's Audio Journalist of the Year Award for three consecutive years in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Since joining the station she's also won 11 Golden Mike Awards, 8 Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards, 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Writing, Diversity and Use of Sound.

She started her broadcasting career in the UK, in both radio and television for BBC News, 95.8 Capital FM and Sky News and was awarded by Prince Philip for her services to radio and journalism in 2007.

She has lived in California for twelve years and is both an American and British citizen - and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.