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N.D. (AP, Prairie Public News) – The chairman of the Adams County Commission says the destruction of one of the county’s communities by a wildfire is devastating.

Chuck Christman says four of the six or seven homes in Bucyrus were destroyed in the Wednesday fire. He says that’s a lifetime of memories for at least four families.

Adams County spokesman Theo Shaleske:

Christman says firefighters were able to save a church in the town, and a privately owned elevator on the outskirts wasn’t damaged because the fire went by so fast. The town of about 30 residents had no businesses.

Christman says the state fire marshal will be investigating the cause of the fire that also destroyed an abandoned farmstead and about 70 electrical power poles and forced the temporary shutdown of U.S. Highway 12.