LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles television news pioneer Stan Chambers, who had a front-row seat to earthquakes, fires and the life of the city since the 1940s, has died.
KTLA News Director Jason Ball says Chambers died Friday at home in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 91.
Chambers’ lengthy 1949 reporting about the effort to rescue 3-year-old Kathy Fiscus, who fell down an abandoned well and died, is recognized as the first live TV coverage of a breaking news story.
Ball called Chambers a great journalist and a great man.
Chambers retired in 2010 after more than six decades of broadcasting at KTLA.
