Fire ruins upward of 100 homes in Queens

Originally published: October 30, 2012 8:35 PM
Updated: October 30, 2012 9:23 PM
By GUS GARCIA-ROBERTS gus.garcia-roberts@newsday.com

Photo credit: Getty Images | Two boys view damage in a neighborhood in the Breezy Point area of Queens in New York after fire destroyed about 80 homes as a result of Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

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A convoy of flatbed NYPD trucks cutting through floodwaters carried residents, some clutching their pets, from the fire-ravaged Queens community of Breezy Point Tuesday afternoon as the ruins of 100 homes still smoldered.

Entire blocks of homes and businesses were leveled by fires in three parts of Queens' Rockaway peninsula Monday night, with flames fed by hurricane-force winds from Sandy...

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