No matter how it turns out ... it was still a pretty good haul in a short amount of time. No doubt there's enough there to pay your guys, replace the broken tools with new, and put a little profit in your pocket. It's not a bad thing.

Just an afterthought. Sometimes those commercial generators have a pretty big fuel tank. The one at the nursing home where i used to work at had a 10,000 gallon tank. We ran both building heat and generator off that tank.

If the backup generator there was diesel there should be a tank somewhere. There could be hundreds of gallons of fuel left in there. If it was propane or city gas than it's probably a no-go.