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They arrived to find fencing and an outbuilding alight.

He checked to see if anyone was hiding under a car, in a truck bed, in one of several outbuildings — “always looking over your shoulder” — before helping wrangle any cows wandering where they shouldn’t.

But Alan’s one bedroom cottage, his father’s studio, the various barns and outbuildings that supported the farming operation and countless pieces of art are gone.

Officials estimate that 7,000 structures were damaged or destroyed; structures can include homes, businesses, smaller outbuildings, sheds and even vehicles.

The nursery’s old family home burned to the ground, as did several wooden outbuildings.