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'Looks Like A Bomb Went Off': Returning Home To A Mobile Home Park Leveled By Irma

About half of the 106 trailers at the Sea Breeze Mobile Home Community are destroyed or moved off their foundations.
Bill Quinn stands where his home sat in Sea Breeze Mobile Home Community on Tuesday. The home was passed down three generations and had an ocean view. It was destroyed by Hurricane Irma.

In the Florida Keys this week, some residents were able to get back to their homes and assess the damage from Hurricane Irma along with those who stayed.

FEMA says in its preliminary assessment that some 25 percent of the homes in the Keys were destroyed and only 10 percent escaped without major damage.

At the Sea Breeze Mobile Home Park in Islamorada, residents came back Tuesday to a scene of devastation.

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