The Wildcat Fire Station on Highway 197 in Clarkesville — a volunteer department that is part of Rabun County Fire Services — was destroyed in the storm.

\”It\’s pretty rough,\” Richard Holt, who lives above the fire station and witnessed the fire, told the newspaper.

He said both bays on the station were blown out and that he could see two pieces of apparatus engulfed in flames.

He was luckily able to save one of the trucks.

\”The third truck was beginning to smoke so I just worked my way in there and drove it out,\” he said.

The cause of the fire has not been determined.