KCLU is the NPR radio station northwest of the Los Angeles market, covering Ventura and Santa Barbara County.
Lance Orozco is the station's only fill time news person (the station has a total of five full time, and three part time employees). He works as News Director and filed reporter, producing 90% of the local content for the stations 10 daily local newscasts, a daily long form (3:30-4:00) long news story for m orning drive, plus he anchors all of the stations live field coverage of breaking news (In the last three years, six brush fires, and a deadly debris flow in Montecito which killed 23 people)
During the November, 2018 Borderline Bar and Grill attack, which killed 12 people, and the Hill and Woolsey Fires, which burned 100,000 acres and destroyed 1600 structures, he worked 36 straight hours at the beginning of the two incidents (they both started within 24 hours of each other) and for 12 straight days. In January of 2018, it was 14 straight days of live coverage after the Montecito debris flow killed 23 people, and closed a major highway for more than a week.
The job also included social media and web ujpdates from the field, and providing live coverage for one of the Los Angeles NPR stations, as well as for the NPR network.
