Firefighters battle a blaze on the boardwalk in Seaside Park, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Less than a year after Superstorm Sandy ripped into the boardwalk at the beach towns of Seaside Park and Seaside Heights, N.J., a fire Sept. 12 has leveled six blocks of the newly-rebuilt Jersey Shore destination. 

According to radio calls reporting what became an enormous wind-blown blaze, smoke was seen in the early afternoon coming from under the southern end of the wood boardwalk near the popular frozen custard stand, Kohr’s, whose roots at the location predate the boardwalk. 

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