began taking stock. there s stores on fire. don t go in. don t go in there! the fire started here at kohr brother s frozen custard shop. it was a little gray smoke, all of a sudden it turned to black smoke. we ran away and turned around again and there was just flames coming out of the building. despite firefighters arriving within minutes, the blaze was quickly out of control. by 4:00 p.m. it was a six alarm fire, flames fed by winds up to 25 miles per hour. as the blaze spread north, it engulfed the iconic fun town pier, one of the few structures in left over from sandy. 400 firefighters from 30 fire companies. one bit of luck for a town whose boardwalk was now now completely consumed by flames. we re just so grateful for
destroyed, the boardwalk s famous fun town pier, which still had not re-opened after the storm last october. firefighters today have been pouring thousands of gallons of water on to the smoldering remainses of the fire. the owner of the badly damaged arcade said he just re-opened in june, and calls the destruction, quote, unimaginable. governor chris christie today said the state will help the area rebuild again. we have endured and begun to come back from the devastation of sandy. we will not let these fires destroy those efforts. check out this time lapse video. shows the workers after the storm rebuilding that boardwalk which re-opened just in time for summer, and now look at this. this map shows the approximate area the flames burned. firefighters had to cut away part of the bardwalk to stop the fire from spreading. rick, what is the situation there now?