One day after a fire destroyed a shopping center in the small Colorado town of Nederland, community members are rallying around the small businesses that lost everything.

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"What can I see? All the hopes and dreams that I've had for the last 15 years in a pile of dirt and smoke," said Doug Armitage, the owner of Brightwood Music, which was among the business destroyed in the fire.

Armitage was looking at what was left of his livelihood when he met with CBS Colorado.

"Brightwood Music was the name of the store that is no more," Armitage said.

Armitage says Brightwood Music was both his passion and a pillar of the community.

"We did lessons. We did classes," Armitage explained. "We did a lot of repairs to musical instruments for a lot of professionals that live here in town,

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