Family, friends and former employees have joined in on the cleanup crew after a fire Sunday night at a long-running flower farm in Greene County.
The fire at Shields Herb & Flower Farm damaged the central building of the longest greenhouse, which was housing wine barrels and seedlings for the coming growing season. The cause of the fire has not officially been determined, but owner Leigh Shields thinks one of the greenhouse heaters may have blown up.
Shields first learned of the fire while checking a camera on his computer while his wife was watching the Oscars.
"It was about 9 o'clock at night, and I look and I go, 'Why is the parking lot all lit up like it's daylight?'" he said.
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