BREEZY POINT — Waves of seawater swept like whitewater rapids across the Rockaway Peninsula as Hurricane Sandy viciously stabbed western Long Island on its path to Manhattan on Oct. 29, 2012.
Despite orders to evacuate, volunteer firefighters stayed in this land’s end community and readied themselves for high-water rescues. Then Sandy’s fierce winds fanned a house fire that grew to become a six-alarm inferno…
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