NOTHING LEFT: Eddie Saman slumps amid the wreckage of his Staten Island home yesterday. (Steve White)
In less than a month, Eddie Saman lost everything he owned from his Staten Island home — twice.
The 57-year-old self-employed salesman had been living without heat or electricity in his gutted New Dorp Beach bungalow since Hurricane Sandy hit.
And on Sunday — just hours after a volunteer EMT brought him blankets and clothes — his only source of heat, a wood-burning oven, sparked a fire that sent those meager donations up in flames.
“Maybe God doesn’t want me to be here,” Saman told The Post. “It’s very overwhelming.
“The flood came and I lost both the motorcycle and my car. I don’t have any transportation except my bicycle,” he said.
He lived in the home, which is fully paid off, for 15 years until Sandy brought in eight feet of water, destroying his furniture and forcing him to rip out his walls to prevent mold.
He was just about to go to bed Sunday night — he’s been sleeping on a pile of wood — when he saw a spark.
“I had just taken off everything and was just in my underwear, and then I see light from the side of the wall,” he said. “I ran outside with bare feet to get the fire extinguisher from the shed, but by the time I came back the fire was inside already. I couldn’t control it, so I called 911.”
Though Saman has homeowner’s insurance, he said he was denied flood insurance many times because of the age of his house and its proximity to water.
The fire insurance will likely only cover the items given to him by volunteer EMT Salvatore Barcia, who recently held a donation drive for him on Facebook, Saman said.
The Red Cross will put him up in a hotel for two nights, but after that, “what will happen, I have no idea,” he said. “I have nowhere to go.”