Redding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to print the news

Print news is alive. 

After California's violent Carr Fire jumped over the Sacramento River Thursday night and entered the west part of Redding, home to over 90,000 inhabitants, the tempestuous fire took out a significant portion's of the city's electrical grid — even toppling transmission towers. 

But the local newspaper, the Redding Record Searchlight, was able to get its paper out — amid approaching flames and without power. 

"I think what they did was hugely heroic," David Little, editor of the Chico-Enterprise Record which ended up printing the paper, said in an interview. "They knew they couldn't deliver to half their readership, and knew homes were burning down and roads were closed."  Read more...

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