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Hurricane Floyd Devastates Pillar of Fire International Headquarters

If you have information to share on the Pillar of Fire situation in Zarephath/Bound Brook, please e-mail us.
Monday, September 20, 1999: Dr. Robert Dallenbach, trustee; Dr. Donald J. Wolfram, General Superintendent; and Rev. Phillip Wolfram, house counsel, have left for New Jersey to assist in the assessment of damages and in the beginning of planning for repair and restoration.
Early reports of the campus situation are grim.  The ground floors of numerous buildings are in shambles. Hardwood and terrazo floors have buckled. Desks, computers, carpets, all sorts of furniture, and audio equipment are soaked. Structural damage seems likely in several buildings. Numerous families are homeless. Pray for and with us as we consider what impact these losses will have on the many ministries based at or supported from Zarephath.
Donations are gratefully accepted. Mail to the address below. Thank you! --- SGW

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Floyd's lingering misery 

New Jersey Star-Ledger09/20/99

By Fredrick Kunkle
STAFF WRITER

As some residents returned yesterday to mud-filled homes and ruined businesses for the first time since Hurricane Floyd hit New Jersey's interior, at least 1,000 remained in shelters and thousands more waited for the restoration of water and power three days after the storm. 

Bound Brook is held 'hostage'

09/18/99   STAR-LEDGER STAFF
(New Jersey Star-Ledger)

After Floyd, Bound Brook was a town under siege from water and fire. 
The hurricane was over, but the mile-square town's troubles were just starting. 
(This story contains much detail about the Bound Brook situation.)
The day after the storm, flooding causing problems all over Jersey 

New Jersey Online
The Associated Press
09/17/99

New Jersey residents are still grappling with floodwaters long after Hurricane Floyd drifted northeast of the state last night.
Somerset County has been declared a disaster area and local police are ordering motorists to stay off the roads there.
 
Jersey totals damage

The Times of Trenton, 09/19/99 

By THOMAS MARTELLO
Associated Press

Floodwaters fed by Hurricane Floyd receded across northern and central New Jersey yesterday, but hundreds of thousands of residents felt the aftermath: ruined homes and businesses, the loss of water service, no electricity and dead phone lines.
Record flooding strikes N.J. waterways; emergency declared 
(NJO News)
The Associated Press  9/18/99 10:55 AM
By THOMAS MARTELLO 
Associated Press Writer 

Floodwaters receded across northern and central New Jersey as search teams in Bound Brook, one of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Floyd, went through 200 waterlogged homes to look for anyone who may still be inside today. 
[. . . .] The federal emergency declaration covered the counties of Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex and Union.
(Another long story; includes some information about surrounding areas including New Brunswick. 

WIRE:09/17/1999 09:33:00 ET
 N.J. Town Fights Flooding, Fire
 

 BOUND BROOK, N.J. (Reuters) - A fire raged out of control  Friday in the central New Jersey town of Bound Brook where  authorities were already battling floods left by Hurricane  Floyd. 
Firefighters were having difficulty reaching the blaze that  began in a motorcycle dealership early in the morning  as  floodwaters several feet deep inundated half of the town,  according to Chief of Police Kenneth Henderson. 
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Bound Brook returns to pick up the pieces 
New Jersey Star-Ledger, 09/20/99
By Carrie Stetler
STAFF WRITER
"We are in the wilderness,"  [Pastor Louis] Kilgore told [a Bound Brook] congregation. "I do not know how long we will be in this place together. I do not know how many days until things will return to normal. But there are lessons to be learned in the wilderness. There are things we can learn here that we can learn nowhere else. God will provide a way." 
New Jersey bails out after Floyd
The Times of Trenton, 09/18/99 

By JOHN McGOURTY
Staff Writer

TRENTON -- With at least four state residents dead and property damage expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars following Thursday's pounding by Hurricane Floyd, President Clinton yesterday declared a state of emergency in New Jersey, putting the state in position to receive federal funding. 
(This is a detailed regional story.)

Residents of N.J. town flee flooding;
Floyd inundates
Bound Brook in ironic end to recent drought (MSNBC)
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