Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Philip Montgomery - Breezy Point Bands Together - After Devastating Fire

By DIONNE SEARCEY and JENNIFER MALONEY Philip Montgomery with regard to The Wall Street Journal

A watch involving dirt upon a significant fire which destroyed hundred homes within Breezy Point.

Residents regarding your tightknit shore enclave involving Breezy Point, Queens, occasionally regarded as the "Irish Riviera" due to the mind-boggling cultural makeup, selected from the ashes of a lot more than hundred residences destroyed simply by shoot Monday evening and considered the long run of the once-placid escape ravished by means of Sandy.

Hundreds more properties sustained deluge deterioration and a lot of residences were being swept away their particular foundations, administrators said.

At a similar time, tales associated with neighbor facilitating neighbors abounded amongst crammed streets, pancaked beach buildings this lined a battered area plus the total cluster involving a multitude of residences also known as "the wedge" flattened by the shoot that is still smoldering Tuesday.

Firefighters whose unique fireplace properties plus families' residences were flooded came into the criticism arena but ended up helpless to get hours as waist-high choppy water blocked them from homes which are on fire plus kept these people from leading to help drowned hydrants.

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Close Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal

A resident functions to extinguish remnants involving the particular blaze beginning Tuesday.

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