John Thompson is feeling pretty well off.

"There's my brother rich, who has a lot of money and then there's me rich. I've got a lot of friends."

Thompson, owner of the Mountain Man store in the Caribou Village Shopping Center, lost his business in the Oct. 9 fire . Friday, he plans to reopen at a new location just across the main road from the shopping center.

John Thompson has dubbed the new shop Mountain Man 2.0. CBS

"If I sat down for a minute, I wouldn't get up. I needed to just keep moving," he said. He has insurance, but there's been no payment yet. Instead, townspeople have taken to donating and helping out. He decided to reopen as quickly as possible rather than wait for insurance money.

"Because of the people in the town. Everybody is just like, 'You were such a great

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