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Hundreds of firefighters from dozens of towns battled for nine hours to get this fire under control. 50 businesses are either damaged or destroyed. don lemon is in seaside park, new jersey this morning. good morning, don. >> reporter: good morning. the investigators tell me, listen, i don't have a small hand. they're saying embers as big as or bigger than my hand were flying into the air here. they didn't know where they were going to land. because of hurricane sandy, superstorm sandy that caused so much damage, some of these fire pumps right here weren't working properly because of hurricane ...

Air tankers are dropping fire retardant and unfortunately it is still expanding. the fire has burned through more than 3,700 acres and 100 homes are threatened and dozens of families have been evacuated there. the fire, unfortunately, is only 20% contained. karen maginnis, how is the weather affecting that fight? >> the temperatures is dry and warm there and they have been in a drought the last several years and keep the dry air filtering in across this region and very little as far as rainfall chances go for that region. but they were saying late in the day, about 8:00 p.m. local time, that t...

Shock. >> david: you are from a firefighter family. you know what you are talking about. >> it's hard to cut ventilation holes through the solar panels to get the fire out. we are talking about the structural collapse. these are massive 300-square feet projects that is a challenge for the firefighters. the problem here is quality, too. you have bad defective solar panels up on the roofs. "new york times" even reported up to a fifth of them have defects, the solar panels. watch out. some of the panels coming in from china could be defective as well. >> david: you wonder if we were in a free mar...

Our heroes but all the innocents that died that day. >> a lot of people said they saw that flag at yankee stadium, aboard aircraft carriers. but where was that real flag? >> we'll never know, i guess. unless you guys figured it out. we thought we had it a couple of days after when the mayor asked us to give it to him. so the admiral could bring it on the aircraft carrier. we thought we sent the right one over there. even that one has disappeared, the one they signed and the one that was flown. i think it was probably an innocent mystery, probably removed by firefighters who didn't want to dese...

Going to rescue people if we could, and if not, we were going to try to do what was right and recover the remains of not just our heroes but all the innocents that died that day. >> a lot of people said they saw that flag at yankee stadium, aboard aircraft carriers. but where was that real flag? >> we'll never know, i guess. unless you guys figured it out. we thought we had it a couple of days after when the mayor asked us to give it to him. so the admiral could bring it on the aircraft carrier. we thought we sent the right one over there. even that one has disappeared, the one they signed and...