We went into the airfield today to see what could be salvaged, what the damage was and put the aircraft away that were taken out of 1+2 to protect them.
The fire was mainly contained to the back quarter, but our office and all the old paperwork is gone. Most of the newer stuff had digital backups, so while the PCs were lost we do have that, but with most of our aircraft averaging 30 years old or more, there were a lot of logbooks without that, some are probably salvageable.
One aircraft was damaged, my tool boxes were obliterated but thankfully not super valuable, the 3 engine blocks and the other guy's tools are fine, stores and workshop badly water damaged but escaped the fire. The steel frame of the building is twisted in the two back stations and the rear wall has a bigger crack than before and we have a new rather large skylight.
As of monday, still at work, but unsure how we're going to proceed.
Still it could have been a lot worse, if someone hadn't been sleeping on site and heard one of the fire extinguishers explode (probably) or maybe the hoist falling on one of the aircraft, we might have lost the entire site and all 15 aircraft.

It sucks, and it's sad, but it's still standing and in time will probably be back, but it's a shame to see the old building like this.

For a wee bit of history, it's an old bus depot that was torn down, moved 70 miles, and put back up at this site in the 1960s. I first worked there about 15 years ago and I love working there full time (ish) now. It's a place very dear to my heart and an extension of my home, I'm one of those weirdos who visits work on weekends just because I can...

Things have been rocky for us for a while, now is not a good time for GA. But right now, we're still there, and back to work of a sort on Monday morning to finish off these jobs.

Thank you for the support <3