Eighty homes have been torched due to a fire that spread
throughout a flooded neighborhood in Queens, New York early Tuesday morning.
About 200 firefighters tried to contain the flame, but high winds from the
superstorm and downed power lines made this very difficult, not to mention
highly dangerous. Steve Mastrandrea, resident of the neighborhood said, “I was
trying to give a helping hand and got trapped. We couldn’t help anybody, I
couldn’t even help myself.” Not even “the Perfect Storm”, the nor’easter that
was occurring along with Hurricane Grace in 1991, could compare to Hurricane
Sandy. It is bad enough that are two extremely dangerous storms happening in
unison, there is a destructive fire that was spreading as well.
That's so sad and unfortunate. A fire AND a hurricane. It's bad enough that there was flooding, and then the high winds had to make it difficult to put out of the fire.
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