Monday, April 20, 2009

New Jersey: update on fire season

A few quick updates on fire season in New Jersey that I obtained from a website maintained by Section B-10 of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.

1. The Jersey Devil fire is 100 percent contained. This is the fire that I posted about on April 19.

2. There was light fire activity on April 19, two fires were mentioned on the B-10 website: (1) a fire in Bergen County in Ringwood at approx. 4 acres, and (2) a 1.5 acre fire in Pemberton, NJ (Burlington County, in or near the Pinelands National Reserve. A helicopter with a bambi bucket worked the Ringwood fire, and an Air Tractor 602 worked the Pemberton fire.

3. Here is a link that I found on the Section B-10 website for a you tube video on a 150-acre that burned in Parsippany/Troy-Hills (Morris County) a couple of weeks ago.

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