Seaside Heights Mayor: “There’s a silver lining”

After recovering from damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, Seaside Heights and Seaside Park, NJ was hit with a devastating fire that has destroyed and affected over 50 businesses.

Seaside Heights Mayor Bill Akers and Seaside Park Town Administrator Robert Martucci spoke to “New Day” Anchor Chris Cuomo about the devastation of this latest disaster.

“The good news is everything has been contained as of 7:45 last night. Where they put the break in on Lincoln Avenue, it held. We’re about two and a half blocks into our community, all the buildings are destroyed and of course the boardwalk,” Mayor Akers said. “We’re going to go up and do an assessment and put everything back together as soon as possible. I mean if there’s a silver lining, we just filled it, we have the specs, we know what we’re doing… and we’ll get it back up.”

John Sunderman, who lost his business Big Hearted John’s, told Cuomo, “We never thought the building would burn. It started eight blocks away and it just rapidly went down there. I never, ever thought the building would burn from a fire that started that far away.”