The bad news is on July 8, 2005 the mill burned to the ground taking 3 days and 250 local jobs. The good news is nobody was injured. Here is a full collection of photos taken after the 3 days when streets were finally semi-opened for foot traffic. This slide show of the devastation is well lubricated with a Bela Fleck and the Flecktones arrangement recorded in Stereo-Surround-Sound a year earlier at Roseburg's Stewart Park during a free-to-the-public Half Shell concert.
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