the ingredients of a hurricane usually
be the wind and the water but in a
small population of queens new york
the blood superstorm adds a new
element to mix the game
the wind made the fire still
the more you see them or follow the path of
destruction from within the
storm apple to apple and minute to
minute from a house where a woman
faced alone the fury of the water had
all kinds of things floating in the water
that provides up a flooded basement
where a survivor of 11-s fight
for protecting his family
the door came down and the water came in
in a whirlpool passing through a neighborhood where
the firefighters plant in each of the
largest fires in the history of
new york in the middle of a hurricane with
winds of more than 110 kilometers
hour they fed reason of
watchmaking experience hurricanes
most dangerous on the planet as if
I was and in the eye of the storm
Music
this is hurricane 360 dissipated and new
york October 29, 2012 six and a half
pm
Hurricane Sandy approaches the coast
this but it is quiet community
coastal is prepared in the park of
gray powder firefighters and the members
of the body enjoy dinner the
imminent storm do not worry them
too
a lot of water is coming in from
could we real
the park was flooded did not occur from
gradually the water the center entered
the morning in just 15 minutes two
trucks end up submerged in a meter and
half of ice water to the firemen les
it catches by surprise but the water will not be
the only thing that endangers their lives
and those of the whole community
the day before hurricane san from the
greatest storm recorded in the
Atlantic had suddenly turned
towards the east coast
the next afternoon he was already
dangerously close we already have here to
the dreaded tropical super storm of
hurricane stan casts a storm over
large scale very dangerous and that can
prove deadly in brisbane in the neighborhood
of queens in new york is in the
east end of the rockaways peninsula
is little more than a set of houses
shores of the Atlantic is quiet
community of workers is the home of
several generations of police and
Firefighters
it is a very united community
we are all friends
I am creating here to the fifth
generation of my family
neighbors have known each other for a while
bunch of years over a thousand people will
they refuse to leave their homes in the
past have survived many
storms and other difficulties in the
11 s terrorist attacks
veríssimo and rockaway suffered in
proportion lower than any other
community
we have had to face the forces
of nature on several occasions by
Unfortunately we have lived many
difficult situations we are hard is not
easy to kill us
calle víctor 219 six and a half of the
late tom arrives to people of charges and
army reservists how it goes up
the sea level a few meters from your
house in luján sayle tomás his parents and
four of his six brothers live in the
peninsula the waves hit us one and
"Again
it's amazing the destruction that can
provoke nature in so little
there's no way to control it
in that it reminds me of war
Thomas is used to the
disasters narrowly escaped the plant
96 of the south tower of the world trade
center during the 11-sy attacks
He fought two years in Iraq now he decides
resist the storm with their
parents because their father is
too sick to go to my parents
they had a good house located far from
the beach in the area of the fence fails
peninsular
neither is he safe from the wrath of
Sambil and suddenly the force of the wind
increased the water level started to
climb at high speed and when covered
completely the sand still followed
I go up
the water sneaks into the basement of their
parents through a conduit of
vent tape the hole as I could
with socks and packing tape
water stopped coming in my mother was
in front of me about four meters
I told him no more water comes in there was no
finished the sentence when the door of the
basement came down
I ran towards the stairs while
water entered Rome in a few seconds
already covered almost two meters and going up
800 meters from wolf mary ellen volcano
mac is a great connoisseur of the sea
thanks to the fishing business of which it is
owner but does not give credit to their
eyes when you see the flooded streets
when I left I realized that I had to
cover at least one and a half meters
I had never seen such a current
strong
nothing can prevent water from entering
the water splashed and almost covered me whole
marking all kinds of things we float
furniture and debris and things like that and I
I tried to dodge them so I would not
hit I thought I was going to die in
that basement
less than 800 meters in the ninth
avenue 2 and selek of 65 years can not
walk when the water steals your house
is alone and completely helpless
I could not get up from the chair because
I am gabba from both knees the
main door was closed and the
lowered blinds I had no idea of
what happened outside
then I saw how the water came up
my house I stayed there sitting
wondering what was going to be of me
less than 800 meters from the park
point briz firefighters is flooded
those who were inside get
escape to a known community center
as plan cause in the adjacent building
it is the highest point in the area
still overwhelming to see how the sea
They were advancing inland, engulfing everything
the witness of something like that makes you respect
even more to mother nature unless
800 meters east
another fire company looks
surprised by the sudden swell
caused by the storm
nobody expected that the water hits us
so strong or so fast we did not believe
that it would reach as high as
cover the engines the firemen of
rockaway find out that there are people
trapped in a flooded area of
principle today known as weich is a
area without streets only sidewalks and rows
of single-story houses apparently in
gray and they were also with the water
up to the neck but we have
the necessary equipment to go there to
try to rescue as many people as
we could and the rockaway firefighters
They have two boats for situations
of emergency
now they are the only means from which
they have to rescue those people
we try to get there with the boats
but one and a half kilometers after
out we did not get to a crossroads where the
water came down with the force of the river
suddenly the firefighters are in
a life or death situation
when the waves threaten to sink their
boats know that the treacherous
alone are just one of the dangers to
those who are going to have to face
the storm reserves you one more
lethal
peninsula rockaway beach new york
October 29, 2012 seven and a half of
the afternoon the hurricane sande lashes the
coast with waves of up to four meters and
medium and gusts of wind over
135 kilometers per hour the storm is
baited especially with the coastal town
from brigitte boyle it is estimated that more than
2,000 residents have been trapped
after the water has invaded
the streets was something like the
strongest swell that you can
imagine
but in front of the house door
the current was taking it all for
perc
e
less than 800 meters east
the rockaway fire department has
a mission to rescue trapped people
in the neighborhood of Tripoli
the narrow streets have become
channels with water dragging everything
in its path
julian bain we undermine the
buildings the sidewalks had
missing
people hit the windows for
call our attention and turn on
lanterns inside the houses result
a little unsettling
the firemen try to rescue the
people who are trapped but the
Storm rebounds and the strong
winds caused waves of up to
meter high that crash against
the boats
the water level was increasing
dangerously and we realized that
It was time to find a refuge
rockaway firefighters take refuge in
kraft cause your surprise is capitalized to
see that felix brych's have done what
See Table 1
we did not know that our colleagues from
another pair that would also be
we tease each other who has
come to rescue whoever
apples north in quito el work
the army reservist takes salt and
they will receive a desperate call from
some neighbors asking for help
He goes out to rescue them but then he
realize that it is useless
the strong currents push him in
opposite direction and that was not going to
to be able to reach even the return of
corner
so I signaled them with the
Lantern
I told them they had to stay there
that was the safest place for them
then the mesh gave way the current
moved several meters away and I realized
have to go back to my parents' house and go to
be a challenge
I went from the roof to the garage and
then to the shed
I finally got home and I gave myself
as defeated
that night I did not think to move day and 8 of
the night
suddenly the storm caused a new
disaster that nobody had counted
the fortresses or the houses
of its foundations allowing the water
come in contact with the installation
electric of the same in the option
avenue there is a short circuit that
it ends up setting fire to a house of
Madera
a fire was declared in the middle of a
tropical storm
brisbane residents face
to a lethal double threat a super
monstrous storm combined with a
devastated game the houses were very
close to each other so the
combination of fire and wind was very
bad news
Málaga covers much of the water
houses but the strong winds of
southeast fan the flames and allow
spread from one to another
brisbane is at the mercy of water and
Fire!
some residents have not yet
abandoned their homes
people jump from porsche in porsche
to escape the flames and the
strong news came to us
of people who were still following their house
of the focus of the fire and what I needed
help about 400 meters in clarence
house
the gray point fire department is
find an unprecedented situation in
its 100 years of existence observe
impotent how the fire progresses without
control while their trucks are still
submerged and the streets completely
impracticables guys are very brave
they wanted to go out to put out the fire but they
I said that if we went out in those
conditions was going to produce some
low that was not worth running
risk your jeans provide for the body of
firefighters rockaway is worried
by their parents who live in eu have been
avenido to the street where the
fire was convinced that my
house had burned down
I thought my family was going to die
I would be waiting for a web help that does not
will come and my fault
four blocks south on the volcano
wolf mary ellen mark gets out with
life of the basement of his house where the
water already reaches the ceiling
now on the second floor you feel
relatively safe until you look
outside and a kind of shine
orange like a tornado that came
towards me I usually go sailing so
I understand some of those things you could hear a
deafening noise
I opened the door and at that moment the house
it was filled with smoke and burning embers
it looked like the apocalypse
rockaways peninsula in new queens
york October 29, 2012 eight and a half
of the night a real hell has been
unleashed in the middle of Hurricane Sande
trapped by the floods and the
Local firefighters watch helplessly
how the flames consume the houses of
its neighbors at the western end of
the peninsula in the coastal community of
brisbane the water reaches the height of
shoulder and what is not under water
It is on fire
the winds that accompany the saud and
they spread the fire westward
burning everything in its path
from wood to gasoline like
time with having a game can be
difficult but with winds of 110
kilometers per hour and a row of
wooden houses on their way
the disaster is inevitable
on the ninth avenue
your and selek can not get up from the
chair in the living room of your house
I sat on the floor without electricity
it had no heating it was freezing
ayoví people pass by the ninth came
screaming my name when they opened the
Main door to enter
I climbed a fireball they said that
all the houses were burned or the
situation was desperate
your neighbors tell you that the
fire goes in the opposite direction
to his home
should be safe unless the
wind change
meanwhile a few blocks away
on ghost tambov mary ellen mark observes
horrified like hurricane sandy
push the fire towards yours
emergencies and I told them I did not expect
who will rescue him
but that they knew that we were going to die
scorched there was fire everywhere
Mary Ellen prepares for the worst
I wrote my security number
social in the arms and legs
as a sailor that I am has had
experiences with hurricanes in florida
I have learned some tricks is a
way to make sure that although
lose an arm or a leg may
identify t
through that number while leaving
his house next to his hitter dog mary
Ellen wonders if he will see her again
I put it on my shoulder as high as I could
to keep the flames from drowning
they were moving very fast
It seemed like it was raining
Fire!
while the sorrows advance through the water
Mary Ellen meets her neighbor
charlie sick of the heart advises
to leave there before the
fire reach your house I was carrying my dog
on the shoulders and talk to my neighbor
I was telling him to come charlie
we're going to have a pacemaker so
I could not walk very fast but I did not
we could stop with your little one
float unused by water and one step
of the fire the firefighters need
desperately new trucks for
fight against the fire that spreads
quickly but help does not arrive
that same day the fire department of
the city of new york has moved
his trucks off the peninsula to
protect them from the storm now not
can return because the water blocks
access to the two bridges that lead
to the same
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back in house class the boss of
firefighters bridgepoint martin grant and
his men are alone and abandoned to
your luck
unable to help their neighbors or
themselves
we were trapped we could not do
nothing although we would have loved to help
to people but circumstances do not
only in stonemasons with flames
approaching more and more begin to
fear that they will not come alive from there
ripoll new york October 29, 2012
8 59 at night
the Saudi is wreaking havoc on the
coastal community after provoking the
cataclysms a tidal wave and a storm
of fire both at the same time great
part of bridgepoint is flooded with
about one and a half meters of water
preventing the passage to the firemen so
that the fire stirred by the winds
hurricanes spread rapidly
More than 60 beach houses are in
flames and many more
they can suffer the same fate
the very high temperatures derrick in
Pipes and tanks
fuel each house had a
barbecue with its own propane tank
and the fire blew them up
the same thing happened with the deposits of
gasoline from the cars parked in the
North side
amid the chaos the firefighters of
rockaway see how some neighbors
they try desperately to escape their
homes despite the dangerous
conditions are willing to
risk their lives to try
help them
outside there were people doing signs
with lanterns
so we put on the suits
neoprene and we went out to lend a hand
the motor boat advances hard penalties for
the narrow flooded streets
maybe we should also address this
rescue mission
the current was so fast that it
It was very difficult to maneuver.
slowly in the direction of the lanterns
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but luckily and they managed to rescue
to pretty people and they brought them all
here clarifies house
ten at night the hurricane winds
of the sambil and have advanced the fire
towards the west crossing the peninsula
but when the eye of the hurricane passes
on the coast line the sanvi is
Book a new surprise last night that the
wind changed direction and not because
it was strange because she did
long time that the eye of the hurricane had
long gone
the wind changes and begins to push the
fire directly towards clarence house
where 40 neighbors and 20 have taken refuge
firefighters inside the smoke column
there were embers the size of a grapefruit
It looked like a meteorite storm
they flew through the air and exploded
Fall into water
the fats as serious as balls of
baseball they hit clear house
It was an incredible show in that
moment we decided that we had to evacuate
building
ingram
the fire brigade of point briz
observe that the water has receded
meters and sends some men to
take a look at the two trucks that
they have been submerged for three hours
a miracle to make it work
but surprisingly both change is
start now we had a plan that
you had to take the survivors
from the house plan to the fire station
the trucks begin to move the
survivors to a temporary shelter in
the church of saint thomas more than 800
meters to the west ulen of the game but not
they suspect that they go directly to another
when approaching the area we saw a house
In flames the embers had
caused another fire a second
fire has been declared on one side of
the bay of bike point to more than 800
meters of the first one is very close to the
house of rsi úrsula salivan that
He faces the storm with his son
thomas an 11-sy survivor
veteran of the iraq war
everywhere you could see embers
size of a fft tennis ball with
a shine or orange
we were worried that something would start to burn
around here and that's what happened
one of the burning embers reached
a house about 20 meters from the sample
Tomás calls the body desperate
gray firefighters to inform them
that your neighborhood is burning not
we extinguished the fire right away
spreading throughout the neighborhood
we leave the survivors in the
truck
we take the hose to the collection girl
a fire hydrant came here what
we pay
a few blocks away from there the church of
saint thomas more serves as a refuge for
about 60 neighbors
Mary Helen Mack arrives walking
after escaping from a fire that
was approaching dangerously to his
house filled the church and there they were
my beautiful neighbors turned to
look at me and shook my head like
saying that there was nothing left so I
I prepared for the worst
Mary Ellen is convinced that what
most likely, your house has
burned to the ground
it was a horrible feeling but
same time I felt anesthesia not like
if it was not happening to my eleven of the
night less than two kilometers east
a new miracle occurs
the firefighters of roxbury get
start one of the engines of the
cars that take several hours under the
water
the streets are still flooded
but they manage to get close to the edge
northeast of the fire where
meet with the fire brigade in the background
gray and rock
now three fire companies unite
your strength to find a way to
put down the flames in the middle of the hurricane
I did not realize its full dimension
until we reach the limit when
we arrived there was nothing but the
glow and smoke the houses were
completely engulfed in flames in fonz
the firemen discover that the mouths of
fires in this area of brisbane
they have little pressure and they deduce that there
cracks in the pipes caused by
the collapses of the houses a mouth of
fires can reach 22 kilograms
of emissions these barely reached anybody
a trickle of water with a
garden hose was all that
We had to suffocate him
the firefighters realize that their
The only option is to use water from
bar they use a special way to
bring salt water full of mud to the
roxbury fire truck which is the
only one that has this system of
suction steaüa is then discharged to
through a normal hose but the
results are disappointing
the problem with this system is that it has
there were a lot of remains in the
water does not get as much the amount
as if you would connect it to a
fire hydrant
in the end what we got was a
super powerful water gun that we
allowed to lower the houses and prevent
the fire will spread but not to pay it
the volunteer rock fireman or will
james river tries desperately
get to your home that is
surrounded by the town could not
approach less than 10 meters at home
too much game in embers press that
my whole family had died while
He was trying so hard to find a way to
put out the fire with which we
we clung I do not understand how could
keep working I did not know if his mother
had left with his family or with
part of it but followed the foot of the
cannon with water to the waist
three fire companies fight elbow
with elbow against a gigantic fire
that takes more than three hours sweeping
the city being partially
submerged
we have to work harder than we
It is not easy to pass the hose
in those conditions there are no words for
express what is important is that we
we felt that night
the fires caused by the hurricane
Stan Lee has finished with dozens of
houses and surely with a number
similar of lives
bridgepoint may be destroyed
completely
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new york October 29, 2012
eleven o'clock moon night with watermelon
grown to become a
true monster surpassing all
expectations has flooded the community
coastal and caused a fire that
has been outside of
3.5 Control
the water level is going down and what
greatly enhances the progress of
flames
the game already consumed almost half a dozen
of residential buildings all to
our surroundings looked like
a barbecue hot supply and
smoking burned us in the hands and
our ears were raw
but where it was most noticeable the heat was
in the stands
the fire has become a
trial by fire for three
fire companies all their
less three trucks have been left
unused and many of the mouths of
infundio do not work
the gray powder firefighters decide
place two of your trucks on the edge
south of the fire to prevent its
advance
the road was covered
debris
we hardly saw where we are going but at
final we get it
we connect the hoses to a mouth of
fires and then to another one
the wind began to blow in
opposite direction and thanks to it
the gray point firefighters are capable
to keep the fire at bay the wind
he gives us a hand otherwise
we could have controlled it
We were progressing little by little through
streets with the wind behind us
extinguishing the flames and preventing the
fire out more
11 and 4 in the evening finally a
truck caravan of the body of
firefighters of new york city
He managed to cross the bridge between
Brooklyn and the Rock Peninsula await
to be able to rescue points before
be reduced to ashes
Juan when we saw that they were starting to arrive
more units we feel relieved
because we're finally going to have the
adequate means to fight the fire
towards three thirty in the morning
The brics fire is classified as
of maximum intensity 300 firefighters and
dozens of trucks fight against him
has become the second largest
fire of the history of the city of
New York
the roads had stairs
extensible with this we can go up
over the roofs and direct the water
from the hoses to where we wanted
which we had not been able to do until
then
the rockaway volunteer firefighter james
river has not been able to find out if his
parents fled their home before they
will burn to the ground has
lost almost all hope that they continue
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I called the neighbors ways to know
if they were Friday
James prepares for the worst before
ask about their parents afterwards
I asked if my parents were with
they told me that if the eu did not
I had felt so relieved in my life
now he could compensate me in the
interior and work better
five in the morning the firemen
they are still paying small
embers the first lights of the day
they show the smoking remains and
flooded from a community devastated by
two great catastrophes families and
the rescue teams fear the worst
while the search for the
disappeared
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Principle and New York October 30,
2012 six thirty in the morning
Hurricane Sandy started with wind and
waves and ended with fire
after almost twelve hours and after the
performance of 300 firefighters of all the
city
beginning in looks like a battlefield
carbonized and muddy about 135
houses have been reduced to ashes
fire is finally controlled
however the neighborhood is still area
dangerous
the ascent to the whole area was
restricted because it was considered that
it was dangerous to breathe that air and
the water could not be drunk either
We had toilets neither electricity nor
heating or food
the services were low
approximately 2,100 of the 2 thousand 800
brisbane houses are seriously
damaged 355 have been completely
destroyed by the game by the water
it was time to face the
fire or the water that flooded the streets
now it was time to check the
damage and lick the wounds
the brisbane resident of lytham is
he marched before the storm
now he and a doctor try
go through the police cordon to
rescue your disabled friend your and
selek locked in her house since
the disaster began
we ran to his house we opened the door and
there I was dancing and skirt like a
ghost because he had no heating
I told him that he could count on me
I was with her and I would not let her
On her own.
you have refused to ask for help from your
friends during the night but he has
paid expensive now suffers a severe
hypothermia after being more than eight hours
sitting in ice water
if they had not rescued her at first
morning time probably not
would have survived if of him and not
I would have come for me I do not know how much
he would have increased his belongings
they can replace but the friends we
(Laughter)
I could never replace the equipment
in wok in the heart of wedge mary
Helen Mack and look for her house among
debris and the ash was unable to
distinguish where I was or in what
street at the end I found a tile
black and white like the ones in my
bathroom usa
everything was burned you could not
take advantage of nothing seemed as if it ended
to leave a boom pow
after surviving the apocalypse and
that everything that was left out
that some residents have started to
rebuild their houses but the calcinated
Brisbane neighborhood will take years
back to normal
this is what was left of my house lived
here for the last 20 years was
as high as the other houses of the
zone and now this is all I want
it breaks my heart to see her in this
been but I am happy because my parents
they are still alive and thanks to this
experience I do not know how fragile it can be
be life
it is believed that nine people have lost
life in red way already drowns das or
for other causes related to
floods but days after that
the fire reduce ashes much of
principle and residents receive a
unexpected news
miraculously none of those who
we were here died nor turned out
injured
it's amazing thomaz salivan and
one of his brothers lost his house
four other members of his family
they suffered damage of some kind last
more than a decade since thomas
narrowly escaped the world trade center
during the 11th is to survive a
car accident to an accident in
boat to the terrible experience of 11-s
and now to the xanthi
I do not usually think about how many lives I have
I only think about trying the best
can I have left
Hurricane Sandy has respected the
Most sacred monument of the community
the memorial of 11 s
it was practically intact
these things are a symbol of hope
at the entrance of the neighborhood a poster
reflects the patriotism and faith of the
community the spirit that animates this
community and the love that we have them
all of us
it is not something that is found in others
neighborhoods of our country but here it
the inhabitants of brisbane
they say that over time they will recover
of this catastrophe as they have done
so many others in the past but always
they will remember the water and the fire that
left touched but not sunk
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