Two deaths were attributed to winds in New Jersey. In Mountainside, in Union County, the police said Maureen Carse, 61, of Union, was killed just after 6 a.m. when a tree snapped and crashed through the windshield of her car on Route 22. In Newark, an unidentified woman who had just left a supermarket was killed just before 1:30 p.m. when a tree branch fell and struck her head, the police said.

Winds fanned flames that heavily damaged 11 attached homes in Queens and sent thick dark smoke swirling in the streets, hindering firefighters who could not see clearly to pinpoint a rapidly moving fire. Six people  four firefighters and two civilians  had minor injuries in the blaze, which wrecked a row of buildings on 96th Street near 91st Avenue in Woodhaven.

Firefighters atop tower ladders poured streams of water, at times through blinding smoke screens, onto flames that leapt from gaping holes in the common loft of the two-story row houses. By late afternoon, the fire was under control, but the roof was gone, the homes had been gutted and residents shivered in the street, wrapped in Red Cross blankets and facing homelessness.

The winds were blamed for two accidents on the Long Island Rail Road. Shortly after 8 a.m., a train bound for Manhattan from Ronkonkoma struck a swinging crossing gate as the train approached the Bethpage station. The gate flew up and shattered a train window, injuring eight people. Six were treated at New Island Hospital in Bethpage, and two others refused treatment.