News Wildfire destroys Hewlett Packard founders' archive

There seems to be an awful lot of "paper evidence" being destroyed lately. Hmm?

 

"Key documents from its founders have been destroyed, however, in a wildfire which hit California's Santa Rosa"

Did anyone else see a problem with the above sentence?

 

I think it's the comma before the however. It completely changes the tone of the sentence, like you are branching into a however, whereas however is a complete part of the previous sentence, so shouldn't be paused. The below feels like a sentence:

Key documents from its founders have been destroyed however, in a wildfire which hit California's Santa Rosa.

The original feels like it is in need of a continuation:

Key documents from its founders have been destroyed, however, in a wildfire which hit California's Santa Rosa, there was a life saving miracle..

I know what I mean, forgive the explanation..

 

I'm not sure about the technicalities but I'll 2nd that definitely seems a bit wonky.

While , however, is perhaps a little unwieldy in itself I think possibly it's mainly down to it not being clear what the however refers to? I'm not sure there is anything prior to suggest they should have been protected. That is implied below.

That said I think the main issue is that it simply repeats the information in the first paragraph without adding anything. Personally I'd either lose it all together or maybe add some extra context.