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Margaret conley, appreciate the information. bill acres, mayor of seaside heights, new jersey. mr. mayor, so sorry were talking under these circumstances. at this point, do you have a sense of how big of a fire this is? how many structures have been destroyed? >> i think right now, were somewhere around 30 buildings. its covering an eight-block area from stockton avenue where they put the break in and thank god its holding. about 7:45, they said they have it contained to the area to the a bloc...

Also advised people to not come down to this boardwalk. anderson? >> obviously good advise. bill acres, mayor of seaside heights, new jersey. mr. mayor, so sorry were talking under these circumstances. do you have a sense of big of a fire this is? >> i think right now were somewhere around 30 buildings. its covering an eight-block area from stockton avenue where they put the break in and thank god its holding about 7:45 they said they have it contained to the area to the a block area and i thi...

She fled prom that area and also has her family members putting out these flames. there are a lot on people standing by watching their businesses go down in flames. its a very, very sad situation. governor christie came down here and addressed the crowd and here is more on what he had to say. >> i know how i feel. i can only imagine how the residents and business owners in this area are feeling. my heart goes out to them. thats why im here to make sure every resource is brought to bare to contai...

Alone cost nearly $8 million. >> we did what we had to do to get the doors open, to let the people know that seaside height is open. but there is so many things we have to do. >> reporter: like more benches and lights. but mayor bill acres is satisfied. >> you can walk the boardwalk north to south and it seems like we got a few people up here today enjoying it. >> reporter: a few people less than a typical memorial day weekend. >> i would say were doing about half of what we did last year. >> re...

>> its millions. >> reporter: tens of millions? >> i would say tens of millions. >> reporter: the new boardwalk alone cost nearly $8 million. >> we did what we had to do to get the doors open, to let people know that seaside heights is open. but theres so many more things we got to do. >> reporter: like more benches and lights. but mayor bill acres is satisfied. >> you can walk the boardwalk north to north, and it seems like we got a few people up here today. enjoying it. >> reporter: a few peop...

Millions? >> its millions. >> reporter: tens of myelograms? >> i would say tens of millions. >> reporter: the new boardwalk alone cost nearly $8 million. >> we did what we had to do to get doors opened, to let people know seaside heights are old. there are so many more things we node to do. >> reporter: like more benchs an lights, but mayor bill acres is satisfied. >> you can walk the boardwalk north to south. it seems like we got a few people up here today enjoying it. >> reporter: a few pem le...