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VIDEO COVERAGE: Hurricane havoc in Lynbrook, East Rockaway (SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO)
Police, firefighters out in full force, answering rescue, flood, fire, damage emergency calls
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A resourceful resident, Dylan Lebon, boats down Adams Street in East Rockaway.
Courtesy Siobhan Kearns
Near post office in East Rockaway
Mary Malloy/Herald
Closed street in Lynbrook
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A tree fell into a Hempstead Avenue house, bringing electrical wires down with it. Lynbrook police were on the scene.
Mary Malloy/Herald
Resident wade in flood waters ankle and knee-deep on 1st Avenue in Bay Park, East Rockaway.
Mary Malloy/Herald
It was a busy night as Hurricane Irene announced herself in our area.
Kathy Leistner/Herald
Local firefighters were tackling water to get to fire on Sunday morning as Hurricane Irene lashed Long Island, and exited, leaving a path of flooding, downed trees and electrical wires.
Rescue calls included a rescue of two hanicapped people from a flooded house on 5th Avenue in Bay Park. The rescued victims were brought to the Senior Center on James Street.
Flooding in the streets was knee-deep in some spots in Bay Park.
The East Rockaway Fire Department set up task force stations to coordinate their calls.
East Rockaway DPW trucks were moved from their Bay Park located to higher ground at Village Hall and along Atlantic Avenue.
Trees fell into houses in Lynbrook, and many wires were down. Traffic lights were malfunctioning as well.
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