Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Fire Activity in NJ on April 7: update #2

A second update on the Red Flag Warnings covering all of New Jersey today. I continye to listen to scanner feed from Division B of the NJFFS (central NJ) and have heard about this fire reported on the Section B10 webpage:

Jackson Twp (Ocean County), Colliers Mills WMA -- Section B9. The last report from Delta 5, a UH-1H Huey Helicopter is that this is a 4 or 5 acre fire. Delta 5, assigned to Division B, can handle a 300-gallon bambi bucket. I don't know if Delta 5 is making water drops with the bucket. Bravo 1 (AT-602), Bravo 2 (Ag-Cat) and Charlie 1 (an AT-602 from Division C) have made multiple drops on this fire (updated at 17:20).

Updated April 8 at 12:15 PM
The Section B10 webpage provided an update on the fire in Jackson Twsp NJ on April 7 at 20:57. The size of the fire is 5 acres and the status is UC.

Note added April 8, 9:50 PM
Note that the NJFFS Section B-10 website is updated frequently. For example, the section on current NJ wildfire activity that I am referring to is updated as new fire activity occurs and older fires drop off the list.  Perhaps you are visiting here for the first time several days after April 7 and reading this article for the first time. Perhaps you are reading some of the other articles I wrote on April 7 about that day's wildfire activity in NJ. In this scenario, when you go to the Section B-10 webpage you are going to see postings about what will then be current NJ wildfire activity and not for today's fires.

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