After 14 months in exile, Former Republican Congressman Bob Turner in returning home, moving back into his rebuilt Breezy point home on Friday. “There’s no place like home,” he said, smiling to the camera, as he let in a NY1 crew during last preparations before moving in.

Mr. Turner was one of more than 80 Breezy Point residents who lost their homes during a massive fire sparked by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Turner and his wife Peggy did not evacuate, until the fire was right on their tails. “While we were here upstairs on the second floor reading, we noticed a glow,” Mr. Turner told NY1.

He recalled leaving the house with wife, walking through water up to their chins, and escaping safely to his daughter’s house four blocks away. But his home of 14 years was gone. “You couldn’t walk into it, it was a smoldering heap,” he said.

The former congressman, who was liked by his colleagues in Congress and many in the Orthodox Jewish community, told NY1 he’d absolutely not run for elected office again. “That’s just not in the cards,” he said.

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)