Newspaper blaze still
under scrutiny; Daily News publishes after building destroyed by flames
MUNFORD
Investigators
are still probing the early morning blaze that destroyed the Fayette Daily
News building on Church Street in Fayetteville Thursday.
Sgt. Bill Rieck
of the Fayetteville Fire Department declined Tuesday to indicate whether
investigators have determined how the fire started. He did say there is
no evidence of any criminal intent in the blaze, which destroyed the paper's
office and press units.
The Daily News
did not publish its Friday edition but managed to get a black-and-white
front page out on the streets Friday as the editorial staff worked from
offices in Senoia, said editor Chuck Morley.
"That
was by the seat of the pants journalism," Morley said, referring
to the chaotic nature of putting together the paper, which was printed
at presses owned by The LaGrange News. The effort took the paper's 30
employees including delivery folks working overnight to complete, Morley
added.
"The first
thing you want to do after you see something like this is fall down to
your knees and cry," Morley said. "I told our people we needed
to do that, but we needed to get back up, too."
The Daily News
publishes on a Tuesday through Saturday schedule, but since computers
were being installed they didn't publish yesterday, Morley noted.
The fire destroyed
the newspaper's "morgue" file of previous issues that dated
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