If you haven’t checked out our multimedia presentation of our “Up from the Ashes” project, I’d encourage you to do so. Our photographer Joe Duty has done excellent work on his 10-month long project following a Paradise couple who lost their home in the large grass fire last January. The Web site also features photos, stories and video from the original fire. Our summer intern, Erika Pedroza, wrote an accompanying story in last Sunday’s Messenger. Production Manager Todd Griffith also did excellent work designing the layout for the story and creating the Up from the Ashes Web site.

In a way, it is fitting that our most in-depth soundslide video feature would be about the fire. The Paradise fire was our very first breaking news video posted on our Web site. It proved to be so popular that it crashed our server (the problem has since been corrected.) We hope you enjoy this new feature. Let us know what you think of it and offer your suggestions of the types of video you would like to see.