Posted on 10/30/2012 1:30:15 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Firefighters are battling a six-alarm fire in the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. Officials say the fire was reported at about 11 p.m. Monday and involves about 50 houses situated in a flooded Zone A area. A fire department spokesman says nearly 200 firefighters are currently at the scene. He says two people have suffered minor injuries. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
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What if the flood caused the fire?
Looking back at some of the raw video feed from the NBC site you linked it does look like a gas line fire - at least at the very beginning of the footage before it really started spreading. Like a lighter with the flame on high down near the base of a building.
Saw some remarkable footage of the 14th St. Substation explosion that plunged Manhattan into darkness.
This is only going to get worse as day breaks and reports start coming in more rapidly. So sad...
The other fact is there is no insurance for flooding but full restitution for a fire. The best way to survive a flood is burn your house
The lesson was learned in north Dakota where a house surrounded by the flooding river caught fire and burned
119th would be a whole new area of destruction from Breezy Point. I spent four full summers at the “Sullivan House” on 115th street.
Continued prayers.
Looks like it was a beautiful place... I pray everyone was rescued and that the community can rebuild quickly.
Yep. I expect there will be a lot of fires in the coming days.
Houses on Ocean, Fulton, and Gotham Walk are compleatly burnt down ...
Units leaving the scene since the tide is coming in ... the Fire is NOT out!
Many gas leaks but utility company cannot respond....
FDNY forced entry into PS 114 (Beach 134-135) to house civilians removed from their dwellings. Wants evacuation by National Guard.
Arson 101 in effect, just a scam to get insurance money.
Arson 101 in effect, just a scam to get insurance money.
I agree with you, the New yorkers are showing their true colors and will vote for soetoro regardless. New york is a soetoro welfare gimme state.
Ummm... NO. Go watch the footage if you have doubts.
119th nursing home is a gas leak ... fire(s) on 116th ... some other fires are rekindling ... 7-storey bldg on boardwalk at 123 st has odor of gas ... I have friends in that bldg! ... my brother is in next bldg!!!
Sullivan House ... was that right behind the Park Inn?
FDNY scanner: http://nycfire.net/qn
Knock it off... spew your hatred on a different thread. We’re trying to keep track of what’s going on AT THIS MOMENT and people’s lives are still in danger - and this is personally affecting some of your fellow FReepers who I assure you are NOT voting for Obama. So, just STOP IT...
Actually, this is one area of NYC that votes Republician.
Oh no! Extra prayers going up now...
Sullivan House on 115th street was right behind the Sullivan Bar on 116th street. Very sorry to hear all this. Thoughts and prayers for your family and friends.
Broken gas lines because of houses shifting in the flood waters, igniting by a spark from the downed power lines, is probably the cause........
How many fires are caused by water? Not many that I can think of. Broken gas lines may be a culprit, but there are not many sparks when all the power is off and everything is under water.
Definitely a possibility. Like I mentioned in a later post, I re-watched some of the raw feed from early on in this particular fire, and it looked like someone had a giant bic lighter on high, resting against the bottom of a building with a flame shooting up on top of the water line. Then with the 50mph+ winds it just spread like crazy. Heard later this morning that the positioning of the island/point makes it a particularly dangerous situation as the winds whip around it.
I was just curious how an insurance company would see that if the gas line breaks, and downed power lines that sparked the fire were the result of a major flood - as is apparently the case in this particular fire.
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