As of the morning of September 13, 2013 the fire was mostly out, but as one reporter puts it, "the firefighters went through hell to put this fire out".
Watch the footage here as ABC reports on the jersey boardwalk engulfed in flames
While the East Coast was burning a wall of water was barreling through Boulder Colorado as over night rains caused flash flooding in 4 Mile Canyon.
Cenobio Chacon tries
to get his son's car out of the path of the flood outside his home in
north Boulder, September 12, 2013. The car was stuck in the middle of
Topaz Drive. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
Certainly a busy night for emergency crews in the US. Fire and water, signs of the end? I'm thinking residence of those communities might be thinking so this morning.