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Monday, August 28, 1995
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Fire endangers N.Y.resort homes
Blaze under control; authorities suspect arson is to blame
2310 West 26th St
The Associated Press
However, the blaze, feeding on tinder-dry pines and oaks some 70 miles east of New York City, had destroyed one home and a lumber yard, damaged seven other homes and a train station, and shut down railroads and roadways.
EASTPORT, N.Y. — Evacuees were allowed back home Saturday as exhausted firefighters cleaned up a wind-driven forest fire that had threatened high-priced beach resort communities.
"It's amazing that we lost over 6,000 acres at this point, and we've not had a single fatality," said Gov. George Fatali. Some 40 firefighters suffered an assortment of minor injuries.
By late afternoon, the Forest Service said the fire was 90 percent contained, stopping short of full containment after winds picked up. The area had not had rain in 19 days.
Authorities said the 6,000-acre blaze looked like arson. Bulldozers had been used to create a dirt ring around the perimeter of the 5-mile by 1/2-mile fire zone.
Shortly after noon on Saturday, about 400 evacuated Westhampton residents received permission to return home. Some had spent two nights sleeping in high school gyms or even in their cars.
One resident, Betty Zera, found one thing that survived the flames that severely damaged her house: her only picture of her father.
"I was thrilled," she said, standing near the wreckage of her patio furniture.
Tourist business was getting back to normal on the summer's penultimate weekend, as visitors returned to expensive summer homes and resorts.
Most highways and the Long Island Rail Road had reopened, although a section of the Sunrise Highway, the main connection to the Hamptons, was still closed as
crews worked to clean up the last embers.
"We've had a lot of people call and ask if we're on fire," said Georgette Chapek, manager at Southampton's Bayberry Inn. "I've been telling them what I see, which is a beautiful day."
Joseph Monteith, department chief for Suffolk County Police, said arson was suspected in the blaze that started Thursday. Two other fires were reported that night along Long Island's south shore, and a police task force was investigating if they were linked to the larger blaze.
However, Edward Jacoby, superintendent of the New York State Forest Rangers, said the amount of damage would make arson hard to prove.
Sources familiar with the fire operation, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that an aerial investigation showed, among other things, that the fire first burned in a straight line — atypical for an accidental fire.
"It's not like we're working with an undisturbed site," Jacoby said. "All evidence of how it started may be destroyed now."
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, a New York Republican, requested federal assistance Thursday and said he was promised that C-130 planes would arrive Friday from Minnesota to bomb the flames with thousands of gallons of water.
State and local officials fumed over the slowness of federal help.
The planes, assigned by the National Interagency Fire Center based at Boise, Idaho, didn't arrive until Saturday afternoon.
"The bureaucrats have some explaining to do," D'Amato said.
He and Pataki said federal officials told them a mix-up over who was in charge at the fire scene led to their failure to order the planes.
In contrast with the first two days, some of the 2,000 volunteer firefighters from across Long Island relaxed on their trucks Saturday, while others used shovels and pitch forks to expose and extinguish embers.
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