By: Jim Rosenberg When Hurricane Wilma blew across Florida early yesterday, its high winds damaged the roof the Deerfield Beach production plant of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The breach allowed rainwater onto the presses and caused the Fort Lauderdale paper to shift printing to its Tribune Co. sister paper, the Orlando Sentinel.
While the storm forced printing to move out of Deerfield Beach, damage to windows and the loss of electricity and water at the Fort Lauderdale headquarters forced the newsroom to set up temporary quarters at the Deerfield Beach plant. (See "
Hurricane Forces Several Fla. Papers to Print Elsewhere," E&P Online, Oct. 25)
Following successful efforts to "control the leak through some coverage" and dry some of the equipment, "we have two of the four presses back operational," Sun-Sentinel Co. Communications Manager Kevin Courtney told E&P Tuesday afternoon. He said the paper expected to print Tuesday night and bring the remaining two presses back into operation by week's end.
"We don't know exactly what caused it," Courtney said of the leaking roof, "but there were a lot of flying objects. We believe that something hit the roof."
Editorial staffers, Courtney added, will return to the Fort Lauderdale newsroom once power and water have been restored.
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