the next issue is due out this upcoming monday. clearly, it will take more than a devastating fire to stop the new rockford transcript. that s a good thing for new rockford. it s a good thing for the rest of us. every town, every hamlet in this country is in some way part of our national story. one of the local journalistic resources we have near the north dakota oil patch covered the fire in their own building as their own building and all of their history turned to ash. inside that building they had a big walk-in safe. in that safe were the newspaper s archives. the history of new rockford all the way back to the beginning, all the way back to the 1800s. the transcript s publisher told us he does not know if the archives survived because his first priority is getting the next edition out. he has not had time to search the wreckage. we will let you know what he finds when he looks. we will be grateful for the good of us all. if you do not subscribe to your local paper, if you do n
cover because the fire was at the transcript s offices. it was in the newspaper s office. the building was a total loss. the staff salvaged one computer and a couple of hard drives. everything else used to create the newspaper was gone. that paper has been there more than 130 years. we can tell you within 48 hours of their building burning to the ground, the staff of the new rockford transcript was back at it working on the next edition of the paper, and that s because the transcript has friends. local real estate company gave them temporary office space. the transcript s publisher says ten other newspapers offered office equipment and anything else they needed. they started rolling out pages of the new edition yesterday. monday, after the fire completely destroyed their offices on saturday. the transcript s general manager, amy, sent us this video showing us the burnt-out office and taking the short walk to their new space where the staff is working on the next issue.
up, it blows up not in heimdal or other towns that have had crashes, they have trained for how to respond to an oil fire in their town. we know about that training and we have great photos of that training, thanks to the local paper. which is called the new rockford transcript. the new rockford transcript is the local newspaper and served the town since 1883. it s been there for more than 130 years. they cover the north dakota junior high rodeo state finals, they cover the construction of the new swimming pool, list the sales during the city wide garage sale weekend. and this weekend on saturday, the new rockford transcript had to cover a big fire in downtown new rockford, north dakota. this was not an oil train fire, but with high winds and temperatures near 100 degrees it took hours to get it out and this is a particularly difficult fire for the staff of the transcript to