WTIP-FM (Grand Marais, MN)
With the My Source Community Impact Awards for engagement, WTIP is being recognized for their project, Ham Lake Fire Coverage.
An entire community relied on WTIP when a forest fire raged for nearly two weeks in the Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe Area in North-Eastern Minnesota. Scores of homes and other buildings were destroyed in the fire. Public officials credit WTIP with having provided life-saving services during this natural disaster; especially in the first 24 hours when fire and police officials came to the station to broadcast critical evacuation notices to the hundreds families living along the 35-mile fire line. WTIP is now part of the emergency response team with the sheriff’s department and fire department, and received the Outstanding Media Award from the Association of Minnesota Emergency Managers.
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