Blue Mountain Television recently won two international awards for news coverage of last year’s Columbia Complex Fire.
Dan Thesman, station manager and reporter, Lowell Mann, editor, and Dan Pyke, photojournalist, were awarded two bronze Telly awards for their work covering the fire, which destroyed several homes, more than 109,000 acres and required a mandatory evacuation of Dayton General Hospital.
“This was one of the worst fires I’ve seen working in television. As people were losing their homes, men and women from around the world were racing to Eastern Washington to do whatever they could to put it out. There were several extremely tense moments, however, I’m so proud of the teamwork we had in providing our viewers continuing coverage,” Thesman adds.
The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions. The 28th Annual Telly Awards received more than 13,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents.
Blue Mountain News is produced in cooperation with Blue Mountain Television and Walla Walla College’s Department of Communication.
Blue Mountain Television won two awards for its coverage of the Columbia Complex Fire, which burned more than 100,000 acres near Dayton, Wash., last summer. (Nikia Furman)
