I bet these folks now wish they had digitized their archives and stored multiple copies in multiple locations: a fire in Kellogg, Idaho at The Shoshone News Press Thursday morning destroyed the southwest corner of the building, although not the rest of the building's contents. The building housed 70 to 80 years of daily news archives. The fire chief reported the office "had a lot of newspaper so there was a lot of combustible material."
Publisher Dan Drewry says that some of the archive is backed up on microfilm although the microfilm was stored in the same building and possibly is lost. The owners and publisher have not yet been able to enter the building to assess the complete damage.
Police quickly arrested a 21-year-old man and charged him with arson.
You can watch KXLY's video below:
You can read more at http://www.kxly.com/news/25129778/detail.html and at http://www.firefightingnews.com/article.cfm?articleID=84826
My thanks to W David Samuelsen for telling me about this story.
