From Moon to Breezy Point: Firefighters Offer Truck to Hurricane-Battered Town
The Moon Township Volunteer Fire Department will give a fire truck to a section of Queens impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
Hurricane Sandy sparked 94 fires across New York City, but none of them as bad as the one in Breezy Point. Searing through 126 homes in the seaside Queens neighborhood, the blaze ranks among the worst in New York City history. Spread by hurricane winds, flames raged for 10 hours, sweeping from home-to-home, according to area media. For the community's battered volunteer fire department, the storm and subsequent fire came with an especially heavy toll. "(Breezy Point) was inundated with floodwaters and winds," said Moon Township Fire Chief John Scott. "And the fire department lost everything. Lost buildings, lost trucks, lost all of their equipment. "They were devastated," said Scott, who estimated that the department sustained more than…
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10:48 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
Me, too! It speaks well for our fire department, for our community, for our citizens that we are a community that empathizes with and, more importantly, acts to help others in need. more ›